The Ben Shapiro Show - August 07, 2026


Our New Movie Trailer Has the Left Absolutely Losing It


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00:00:00.000 So, we made a kick ass movie about Islamic terrorism, and the terror supporting left then called us Islamophobic.
00:00:06.000 Honestly, we could not get a better endorsement for the film.
00:00:09.000 Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels is literally about ISIS taking over a college campus.
00:00:12.000 So, when a left wing terror hugger like Mehdi Hassan says that the movie generates hatred for Islam, I mean, you're kind of outing yourself.
00:00:20.000 I don't know.
00:00:21.000 It seems like a good idea to be phobic of Islamic terrorism.
00:00:24.000 I think we should be concerned about ISIS.
00:00:26.000 They're the bad guys.
00:00:27.000 Everybody should know exactly who they are and what they do.
00:00:30.000 If people are pissed at the trailer, just wait until they see the film.
00:00:32.000 So, Infidels is basically a sort of 1980s, 1990s style action flick, Toy Soldiers, Red Dawn style major action movie starring Jonathan Majors about an ISIS takeover of an American Lib University.
00:00:47.000 It's exciting, it's intense, it's funny, it's the biggest movie we've ever done.
00:00:51.000 If you missed the trailer yesterday, here it is again so you understand what we're talking about when we get to the critique.
00:00:57.000 Your country is beneath contempt.
00:01:01.000 We who love and serve Allah fought back against the Americans and the Zionists.
00:01:07.000 From the scourge of secularism and the lands of unbelief.
00:01:15.000 Anyone gonna listen to Captain Saunders tomorrow?
00:01:19.000 The retired Delta Force soldier with the new book out.
00:01:23.000 He's the polar opposite of those brain dead protesters.
00:01:26.000 Given the current climate, should Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
00:01:29.000 Mr. Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
00:01:32.000 This is a decision I cannot flatter.
00:01:34.000 There are three ways Islam will conquer the West.
00:01:39.000 Through immigration, through the wombs of our women,
00:01:45.000 and by using our nation's freedoms against us.
00:01:53.000 Are you paying attention?
00:02:01.000 Listen carefully.
00:02:05.000 The great Satan America will fall.
00:02:14.000 You are infidels.
00:02:15.000 The bodies of women are not pure and men's souls are unclean.
00:02:20.000 What makes them so dangerous?
00:02:23.000 Their goals are not in this life, but the next.
00:02:31.000 Anyone?
00:02:32.000 I got friends here.
00:02:33.000 I can't just leave.
00:02:33.000 They listen to me.
00:02:34.000 In the law.
00:02:36.000 We cannot run or hide from what is coming.
00:02:40.000 We have to fight.
00:02:42.000 I will be rewarded 10,000 times in the next life.
00:02:45.000 When you die, you're nothing.
00:02:47.000 Only one way to find out.
00:02:51.000 That's the American way.
00:03:02.000 Okay, so first off, I should say the movie is awesome.
00:03:04.000 It's awesome.
00:03:06.000 Okay, I know.
00:03:06.000 And by the way, if you don't believe me that it's awesome, you should go watch Run, Hide, Fight, like the first Run, Hide, Fight, right?
00:03:12.000 Because this exists in the Run, Hide, Fight universe, Infidels.
00:03:15.000 The first Run, Hide, Fight is available right now over at Daily Wire, and you should check it out.
00:03:18.000 It is one of our most viewed pieces of content, literally ever, because it's great.
00:03:22.000 It's about a girl and her friends trying to fight back against a school shooter.
00:03:27.000 Go check it out, Run, Hide, Fight.
00:03:27.000 It's fantastic.
00:03:28.000 Same director, same writer.
00:03:29.000 Okay, so that's as far as the quality, it kicks ass.
00:03:33.000 It's great, it is better than the first one.
00:03:35.000 Okay, but let's get to the blowback because the blowback is so telling.
00:03:38.000 So, Mehdi Hassan did what you would expect.
00:03:41.000 Mehdi Hassan, an import from Al Jazeera and a spokesperson for Qatar, is difficult to come up with a more bigoted, Islamophobic, and cliched trailer than this one.
00:03:51.000 Okay, so I have a question.
00:03:53.000 Why is it Islamophobic to point out what ISIS actually does and says?
00:03:59.000 It turns out that he's going to have to explain to me how an Islamic terror group.
00:04:05.000 That is literally doing everything that is done in the movie is done by Islamic terror groups all over the world.
00:04:11.000 Why is depicting those people on screen Islamophobic?
00:04:15.000 He's going to explain how that actually implicates all of Islam.
00:04:17.000 Does it?
00:04:18.000 I mean, if it does, then maybe Mehdi should explain.
00:04:21.000 Why is it Islamophobic to literally just quote ISIS doing ISIS things?
00:04:26.000 I don't like ISIS doing ISIS things.
00:04:28.000 I think it's bad.
00:04:29.000 And so therefore, I'm very much in favor of movies that paint ISIS as the bad guys.
00:04:35.000 Why that is remotely controversial.
00:04:37.000 Or hiding behind the rubric of Islamophobia is bizarro world.
00:04:40.000 Bizarro world.
00:04:41.000 Bigoted.
00:04:41.000 Why is that bigoted?
00:04:43.000 See, why is it bigoted to say, you know, it's bad that ISIS does ISIS stuff and wants to murder Americans and would love to set up a caliphate here in the United States if they could?
00:04:51.000 Why is any of that, quote unquote, Islamophobic?
00:04:53.000 Why are you hiding behind a nonsense word?
00:04:57.000 Why are you doing that?
00:04:59.000 And then he says also, Hollywood has refused to tell the story of radical Islam.
00:05:03.000 Is Shapiro insane or just gaslighting?
00:05:05.000 Muslims have been the main villains in Hollywood for decades, even predating 9 11.
00:05:08.000 It's not true.
00:05:08.000 That's just horseshit.
00:05:09.000 I mean, seriously, you could probably count on one hand the number of movies, major movies, where Muslims are the villains.
00:05:18.000 And in fact, Hollywood routinely changed Muslims from being the villains of films, like over and over.
00:05:24.000 Most famously, there was a Ben Affleck movie that was rooted in an action novel by the same guy who did Hunt for It October.
00:05:33.000 There's a Jack Ryan movie called The Sum of All Fears.
00:05:36.000 And The Sum of All Fears was supposed to be about Palestinian terrorists, in the book it is.
00:05:39.000 They changed it to Russians.
00:05:41.000 That sort of stuff happens all the time in Hollywood.
00:05:44.000 All the time.
00:05:46.000 Hollywood is constantly doing movies about the neo Nazis, about the radical Russians, even the North Koreans.
00:05:54.000 I'll stay away from the Chinese because there's too much of a Chinese movie market.
00:05:58.000 But they have really stayed away from ever since 9 11.
00:06:01.000 I'm old enough to remember when the show 24 literally had to deploy Kiefer Sutherland to apologize publicly for possible Islamophobia in the show because there was a season.
00:06:15.000 About the counterterrorism unit, which is what 24 was about.
00:06:18.000 Great show.
00:06:19.000 In which Muslims were the bad guys.
00:06:21.000 And it turns out, by the way, even the Muslims were working for some sort of cross national corporate organization or something.
00:06:26.000 Because that's how Hollywood always has to play it.
00:06:28.000 So, you know, like a balls out depiction of exactly what ISIS does, I'm not sure how that's Islamophobic.
00:06:34.000 And if you think it is, you're telling on yourself.
00:06:36.000 Because I think we should be phobic of ISIS.
00:06:39.000 They're the bad guys.
00:06:42.000 I mean, I think that it is good that the American people know.
00:06:45.000 Who their enemies are and what those people think and what they say and what they do.
00:06:49.000 And Kyle's script definitely does that.
00:06:51.000 It definitely, I mean, again, the trailer is just the tip of the iceberg.
00:06:53.000 If they're pissed off at the trailer, wait until they see the film.
00:06:58.000 Again, I don't understand why it's incredible to me.
00:07:00.000 People are upset because the movie is anti-ISIS.
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00:08:05.000 And meanwhile, people who legitimately sympathize with ISIS, like, for example, the idiot streamer Sneeko, he put out a tweet the Kufar are getting so desperate they're trying to do Bush era propaganda in 2026.
00:08:17.000 No one cares anymore.
00:08:19.000 We all know the Israelis are the real terrorists.
00:08:23.000 Now, I would just like to point out at this point the root of Kufar is also Kafir, which is infidels.
00:08:30.000 So he's literally calling people infidels.
00:08:33.000 In that tweet, he's calling people infidels, saying the infidels are desperate.
00:08:37.000 The infidels.
00:08:38.000 And by the way, Sneeko says you should be afraid of the Udin, of course.
00:08:44.000 He was literally chanting Nazi propaganda.
00:08:47.000 This is the same guy who openly says, quote, congrats to Abdullah el Sayed, the first Muslim to win a primary for the U.S. Senate.
00:08:54.000 Islam will save America, inshallah.
00:08:57.000 I don't know.
00:08:58.000 I feel like maybe we should be a little concerned.
00:09:00.000 I feel like maybe we should be a little concerned.
00:09:01.000 Sneeko, the guy who's telling you you should not worry about Islam, literally goes out on the streets of New York and chants that Islam is about to take over America.
00:09:11.000 And we're supposed to just pretend this is not a thing that is happening here in the United States, or that it is totally crazy to make a movie in which the ISIS aligned and their sympathizers are the bad guys?
00:09:22.000 I kind of feel like they're the bad guys.
00:09:22.000 I don't know.
00:09:25.000 And as for the notion that ISIS is just not a threat in America, yeah, they kind of are, actually.
00:09:30.000 In fact, ISIS remains the chief threat of terrorism worldwide today.
00:09:34.000 According to the Global Terrorism Index, 20% of all terrorist groups, of all terrorist attacks on planet Earth, are attributable to ISIS right now.
00:09:44.000 And of course, we've seen a multiplicity of radical Islamic attacks in the United States, not including 9 11, which killed 3,000 people and injured 6,000.
00:09:52.000 We're all supposed to pretend that never happened.
00:09:54.000 It is insane to me that we as a country have decided that September 11th is totally irrelevant, totally irrelevant.
00:09:59.000 And in the city where 3,000 people were murdered by radical Muslims, the city of New York decided to make its mayor a person who is sympathetic to radical Islam.
00:10:09.000 It's insane.
00:10:10.000 It is totally crazy.
00:10:11.000 But this is where we are, and that is indeed a threat.
00:10:14.000 But, you know, Just take the last decade and a half or so.
00:10:18.000 The 2009 Fort Hood shooting, 13 killed, 30 injured.
00:10:21.000 The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, 3 killed, 260 plus injured.
00:10:25.000 The 2014 Queens Hatchet attack, 2 NYPD officers injured.
00:10:28.000 The 2015 Chattanooga Military Recruitment Center shooting, 5 killed, 2 injured.
00:10:32.000 2015 San Bernardino attack, 14 killed, 22 injured.
00:10:35.000 The 2016 Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, 49 killed, 53 injured.
00:10:39.000 2016 New York City, New Jersey bombings, 31 injured.
00:10:42.000 2016 Ohio State University attacks, 11 injured.
00:10:44.000 2019 Pensacola Naval Air Station shooting, 3 killed, 8 injured.
00:10:49.000 2020 Corpus Christi base attack, one injured.
00:10:51.000 2025 New Orleans Bourbon Street attack.
00:10:54.000 That was the one where the truck actually had an ISIS flag on the back of it.
00:10:56.000 14 killed, 57 plus injured.
00:11:00.000 See, so here's the thing.
00:11:01.000 I don't know.
00:11:02.000 I feel like we should be concerned about ISIS and all the people who are willing to defend ISIS by just shouting Islamophobia.
00:11:08.000 We should be concerned about those people.
00:11:10.000 We should.
00:11:11.000 We should be talking about the threat of radical Islam.
00:11:14.000 How do I know that?
00:11:15.000 Well, I mean, one reason is we will probably have to spend millions of dollars as a company on security because we're making a movie depicting radical Muslim terrorists as radical Muslim terrorists.
00:11:25.000 Now, I can tell you this if we made a movie about Christian nationalists and how evil they are.
00:11:30.000 We would not have to up our security.
00:11:31.000 We would not.
00:11:33.000 But if I literally took out a piece of paper right now and drew a stick figure and wrote the word Muhammad with an arrow to it, I would have to up my security radically.
00:11:43.000 That says something about an ideology, does it not?
00:11:47.000 Here's the thing if I have nothing to fear from devotees of an ideology, then I really shouldn't have to worry about people being murdered because I speak about that ideology.
00:11:57.000 And Salman Rushdie writes a book.
00:11:59.000 30 years ago, and the Iranians put a fatwa on him, and he stabbed in the eye 30 years later.
00:12:04.000 And unfortunately, unfortunately, when you scratch beneath the surface of the Islamic communities across the West, it turns out there are an awful lot of people who believe awfully radical things.
00:12:16.000 For example, just two years ago, a Henry Jackson Society poll of British Muslims found that 52% of them, a majority, believed it should be illegal to draw Muhammad.
00:12:26.000 Illegal.
00:12:27.000 You should be legally punished for drawing Muhammad.
00:12:29.000 That same poll found that British Muslims.
00:12:32.000 Are more likely to have a positive than a negative view of Hamas.
00:12:34.000 And by the way, a lot of that sentiment is shared across the pond here in the United States.
00:12:38.000 A pew poll from just a couple of months ago found that 44% of American Muslims expressed favorable views of the terrorist group Hamas.
00:12:47.000 44%.
00:12:50.000 And there's a reason that Abdul El Sayed won 90% of Dearborn, the same city where Jake Lang was getting the crap kicked out of him the other day.
00:12:58.000 And it turns out there are a lot of Muslims in the West who are willing to morally equivocate about radical Islamic terrorism and violence and then shout Islamophobia the minute you notice it.
00:13:07.000 And they're a bunch of leftists who are willing not only to fellow travel with it, but are willing to ingest it, imbibe it, make it part of their program.
00:13:14.000 That's the story of Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels, but it also happens to be the story of America right now.
00:13:18.000 We're watching it happen in real time, in our politics.
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