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

September 16, 2026

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In the new Daily Wire film Run Hide Fight: Infidels, a group of Islamist terrorists take over a college campus with the help of leftist student protesters. The movie’s premise is not subtle: the radicals and the activists are natural allies, and when the Islamists turn on their useful idiots—kicking a gay student off a roof, executing women who supported them—the leftist reviewers were furious. Slate called the film “deranged.” Variety called it “Islamophobic.” The hosts of Friendly Fire—Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, and Drew Knowles—embrace the label. “If Islamophobia is even a word that means anything, then sure, let’s embrace that,” Walsh says. The conversation that follows is not really about the movie’s plot. It is about a central argument: that radical Islam and the Western left are strategic allies in a shared war against Christian civilization, and that the refusal to name this alliance is itself a form of cultural suicide.

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1 Friendly Fire: Run Hide Fight: Infidels, Useful Idiots, and the Jihadi Coup
2 (02:15) **Opening & Daily Wire's New Movie "Run Hide Fight: Infidels"** - Hosts introduce the film as a satire mashing up Red Dawn and Blazing Saddles about radical Muslims taking over a campus with help from leftist students
3 (05:16) **Defending the Film's Islamophobic Label** - Matt Walsh acknowledges the film is Islamophobic and argues that's a feature, not a bug
4 (09:10) **Islam as a Global Force with "Bloody Borders"** - Ben Shapiro cites Samuel Huntington to argue Islam is inherently expansionist and incompatible with Western civilization
5 (12:48) **The Red-Green Alliance Explained** - The hosts argue the left and radical Islam share a common enemy: Christian civilization and America
6 (14:22) **The Left's Imaginary World vs. Reality** - Drew draws a contrast between leftist fantasies about land acknowledgements and the actual consequences of Islamic rule
7 (22:56) **Historical Precedent: The 1979 Iranian Revolution** - Ben Shapiro cites the Iranian Revolution as proof that the Red-Green Alliance ends badly for the left

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Guests on this episode

Michael Knowles Matt Walsh Ben Shapiro

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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