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

September 16, 2026

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In the days after September 11, 2024, the New York Times ran a front page whose second headline was about the rise of Islamophobia. As one of the hosts notes, an alien reading that paper would have assumed the attacks were a mass assault on Muslims by Americans. This inversion of reality is the backdrop for the Daily Wire’s new film Run Hide Fight: Infidels, a satirical action movie in which radical Islamists take over a college campus with the help of leftist student protesters. The film has been called “deranged” by Slate and “Islamophobic” by Variety, but the hosts argue it is simply showing what would actually happen if the “Queers for Palestine” crowd found themselves under an Islamic caliphate.

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1 (00:53) **Opening & Movie Premise** - The hosts introduce "Run Hide Fight: Infidels," a Daily Wire film about a jihadi takeover of a college campus aided by leftist student protesters, and frame it as an "epic troll" that critics hate.
2 (04:06) **"Red Green Alliance" Explained** - The hosts unpack the core thesis: the film satirizes the real-world alliance between radical leftists and Islamists, united by a shared hatred of Western civilization.
3 (08:23) **Historical Precedent: The Jihadi-Leftist Alliance** - The panel draws on history to prove the alliance is not a fiction, citing the 1979 Iranian Revolution as a clear example.
4 (12:12) **The Left's Strategic Hatred of the West** - The hosts argue that the left's alliance with Islam is strategic, not naive: both sides share a primary enemy in Christian civilization and America.
5 (16:51) **Movie Clip: The Kicking Scene** - A graphic scene is played where a Muslim terrorist kicks a homosexual student off a roof, illustrating the film's blunt satire of the left's suicidal alliances.
6 (20:49) **Critic Hypocrisy and Left-Wing Violence** - The hosts respond to the Variety review accusing them of lacking empathy, arguing the left is actually the most violent and cruel faction.
7 (25:07) **The "Suicidal Empathy" Myth** - The hosts deconstruct the left's self-image as "suicidally empathetic," arguing it is actually a total lack of empathy for their own people.

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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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