Ep. 2508 - Radical Islam Is On The March

September 16, 2026

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Radical Islam Is On The March

The Houthis—a ragtag group of Yemeni tribesmen armed with RPGs, AK-47s, and Iranian-supplied weapons—recently captured the strategic port city of Mocha and Perim Island at the mouth of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a global choke point for oil shipping. They did this without the Saudi military flying a single sortie from the F-16s and F-35s the United States sold them. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly called President Trump twice on Thursday, begging for American airstrikes. Trump declined. This episode of The Ben Shapiro Show uses that humiliation as a case study for a broader argument: political Islam is both a threat and a failure, and the West—particularly Israel—remains the only capable ally in the region.

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1 (00:02) **Episode Open & Run Hide Fight Infidels** - Ben Shapiro celebrates the release of Daily Wire's new movie, framing it as a direct challenge to Hollywood and leftist censorship.
2 (05:13) **ISIS Terror Plot Foiled in Pennsylvania** - A concrete domestic terror case is introduced to illustrate the immediate, real-world threat of radical Islam.
3 (07:01) **Abdul El-Sayed: The Islamist Senate Candidate** - Shapiro profiles the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, arguing he is a radical Islamist apologist who could win a seat in the U.S. Senate.
4 (11:33) **The Red-Green Alliance: Useful Idiots** - The episode pivots to the alliance between radical leftists and Islamists, using the film's theme to explain how the former are used by the latter.
5 (14:44) **The Failure of Political Islam** - Shapiro delivers a central thesis: Islam as a governing philosophy is a total failure, relying entirely on Western technology and thought.
6 (17:13) **Saudi Incompetence and the Houthi Threat** - A case study in the failure of Islamic governance: Saudi Arabia, armed with billions in American weapons, is humiliated by the ragtag Houthi terrorists.
7 (24:58) **Why Iran Must Be Stopped** - Shapiro argues that the Iranian regime is using the Houthis to spike global oil prices and that the only solution is to "cut off the head of the snake."

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