Friendly Fire: Run Hide Fight: Infidels, Useful Idiots, and the Jihadi Coup

September 16, 2026

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Friendly Fire: Run Hide Fight — Infidels, Useful Idiots, and the Jihadi Coup

The Daily Wire's new film Run Hide Fight: Infidels doubled the first-day viewership of its predecessor, and reviewers are calling it "deranged" and "Islamophobic." The hosts—Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan—spend this episode explaining why they consider that a compliment.

The Central Argument: The Red-Green Alliance

The film's core thesis is that radical Islamists and the Western far left have formed a strategic alliance built on a shared enemy: Western civilization, Christianity, and traditional American institutions. The movie depicts Muslim terrorists taking over a college campus with the help of leftist student protesters who naively believe they are allies.

Walsh frames the dynamic bluntly: "They see Islam as a destructive force, something that seeks to destroy Western civilization. And it's really that simple." The left, he argues, is "progressive in the sense that cancer is progressive"—it destroys without a rebuilding plan, and it sees Islam as a useful tool for that destruction.

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1 (02:18) **Introducing "Run Hide Fight: Infidels"** - The hosts (Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Drew) launch the episode about Daily Wire's new satirical action movie depicting a campus takeover by radical Islamists and leftist students.
2 (07:06) **The "Red-Green Alliance" Thesis** - The hosts explain the core political argument of the film: the alliance between radical leftists and radical Islamists against Western civilization.
3 (09:03) **Defending the Film Against "Islamophobia" Charges** - The panel responds to critics who accuse the movie of bigotry, arguing the criticism is hypocritical and evasive.
4 (11:06) **The "Queers for Palestine" Paradox** - The hosts explore why leftist activists, especially LGBTQ+ individuals, would ally with a movement that would persecute them.
5 (18:18) **Satirical Violence and the Left's Fantasy World** - The panel discusses a key scene where a Muslim character kicks a gay student off a roof, using it to critique the left's disconnect from reality.
6 (23:11) **The Historical Precedent: Iran 1979** - The hosts use the Iranian Revolution as a concrete example of the left-Islamist alliance ending badly for the left.
7 (25:05) **Shared Violence: Left-Wing and Islamist Terrorism** - The panel draws a direct parallel between the violence of radical Islam and the rising tide of left-wing political violence in America.

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Guests on this episode

Ben Shapiro Matt Walsh Michael Knowles

Show Notes

A can't-miss LIVE episode of Friendly Fire. Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Andrew Klavan react to Hollywood's whiny, sanctimonious reviews of Run Hide Fight: Infidels, debate the role blue-haired college liberals play in helping the rise of radical Islam, and expose the nefarious plots and schemes of Jihadis to take over the West.

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