The challenges of making the Daily Wire's latest film project

In this Daily Wire interview, they discuss the making of Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels, which is their project for focusing on the issue of Islamic terrorism:

Ben Domenech: Dallas, before we start talking about this movie, which was something that was important for you to do, talk about the decision to go in this direction — one that was a little fraught, just given the topic area and the fact that you were going to take a new and different genre approach to this, I would say, than perhaps you had before while staying in the same family. Walk me through a little bit about the decision processes that led up to deciding to make this movie.

Dallas Sonnier: You don’t hire me to produce a movie if you’re trying to make something for Hallmark, let’s say, and you don’t hire someone normal or reasonable when you’re going to make these kinds of movies. And so I am, in certain ways, built for this moment, just because of the movies that I’ve made and the career I’ve built, and learning how to make high-budget movies for low-budget money. And we always get nice big stars in these movies and the explosions look big. The part of my career I’m most proud of is building this type of movie-making. And so that’s how it gets made. Now the genesis of it was a conversation between me and Mike Richards, the new Daily Wire CEO, Ben Shapiro, and the writer-director of the original “Run Hide Fight” movie, Kyle Rankin.

The four of us got on the call, and we said, “Hey, we should really consider making another ‘Run Hide Fight’ movie. It does so well on the platform, and it’s so successful for us, and we want to go bigger and better.” And so that’s how it came about. And then we battered around some ideas, and Mike Richards was really inspired by the student protests at Columbia University, but most importantly, the counter-protest normal students, so to speak, who fought back and wanted to go to school and go to class and not be interrupted by this pro-Palestine nonsense. So that’s the genesis of the movie and how it came to be and how we go about it. [...]

BD: Just to circle back to the Islam question, there is real concern when you engage in a project like this that the threats that come through are more meaningful and more real than perhaps the long-distance threats of nation-states and the like. Now that may not always be true. There are plenty of documentarians and journalists and people like that who Russia has reached out and targeted over the years in places that are not Russia, despite their insistence on trying to have the same frequency of falling out windows in London. They have not achieved that same level, but it does seem to me that there is always an additional risk that comes when you’re seizing on this topic area. How much of a concern was that for the participants in this production? Did you have to work through their own concerns about this, just given that there’s a reason that there’s not a Charlie Hebdo that involves evangelical Christians?

DS: Sure. We cast the terrorists in the movie mostly from the stunt community. And so I joke around a lot as a proud conservative and as almost a right-wing filmmaker at this point. I joke around that we can’t name our favorite conservative chef because they don’t exist. Conversely, you can’t name your favorite liberal stuntman because they don’t exist. And so when you’re leaning into a really tricky role that has a lot of action and violence and things like that, the trick is to cast a stunt person and then help them get the performance. And so we were unbelievably blessed with that group of guys.

I definitely hope they make sure to employ good security for their project contributors as well. If anything, I'm glad they're now tackling a challenging issue like this, and hope they don't allow intimidation to get in the way. Otherwise, serious subjects will not be focused upon or dealt with. I wish the Daily Wire staff good luck with producing this item.

Muslim gym teacher in India murdered Hindu woman, police accused of failing to act on prior warnings

Ashlyn Davis reports a Muslim gym trainer in west Delhi murdered a Hindu woman:

A 26-year-old Muslim gym trainer identified as Mohammad Imran, alias Aqib, strangled and stabbed a 21-year-old Hindu woman to death inside her home in West Delhi on August 26, after weeks of alleged harassment and threats. Police identified the victim as Muskan Sharma, a Delhi University student and part-time model and content creator, and arrested her former gym trainer two days after the killing.

Police sources have confirmed that Imran had visited Muskan’s home in Old Mahavir Nagar, Tilak Nagar, on the evening of August 26, where she stayed alone. CCTV cameras captured him entering the building between 5:40 pm and 5:45 pm.

According to reports, Imran strangled Muskan before stabbing her multiple times with a knife and fleeing the scene. A domestic worker later found her lying seriously injured on the floor and alerted people in the neighborhood. Her relatives and neighbors rushed her to a hospital, but doctors declared her dead on arrival.

Imran also took the victim’s mobile phone after the attack in an attempt to erase or destroy digital evidence that could link him to the crime. According to police, he allegedly tried to delete data from the iPhone, but failed. He subsequently discarded the device near a drain in West Delhi. Police later recovered the phone, and the device ultimately helped investigators trace Imran. Officials formed several teams and launched a search for Imran. Investigators examined CCTV footage and followed other leads before locating him in Rajouri Garden on August 27.

Police said officers confronted Imran and ordered him to surrender. According to the police account, Imran pulled out a pistol and fired several rounds at the officers. The police team returned fire and shot him in both legs. Officers arrested him and took him to Guru Gobind Singh Hospital for treatment.

Investigators have since examined Imran’s relationship with Muskan and the events that preceded the murder. Police claim the two had known each other for about 18 months after meeting at the gym where Imran worked as a trainer. Their relationship later deteriorated, and Muskan decided to distance herself from him. Officials also suspect that Imran became increasingly possessive after Muskan ended the relationship, and are examining whether jealousy and anger over the change in their relationship motivated the attack. However, Muskan’s family has discounted such assumptions.

Muskan’s family has also accused the police of failing to act on earlier warnings. Muskan had approached a police station on July 18 and complained that Imran was harassing her. Police sources also verify that Imran had a history of drug use and was sent to a de-addiction center after a complaint from Muskan’s family. He was released on July 30 after allegedly injuring himself while at the center. Muskan’s family has alleged that Imran continued harassing and following her for several months and said they expected police to have intervened before the situation escalated.

Now the officers who immobilized the monster by blasting his legs did the right thing, and injuring his legs is a punishment that such offenders should receive more often. But those police officials who failed to act upon previous information did the wrong thing, and must be penalized for enabling such a horrific crime to occur. How much more of these repulsive incidents must it take to understand why serious vigilance is required to prevent them?

Woman whose daughter was murdered on October 7, 2023 confronts irresponsible IDF official

A woman whose daughter was murdered by Islamofascists on October 7, 2023 has taken issue with a former IDF officer whom she blames for the tragedy:

Shelly Meshel-Yogev, whose daughter Libby Cohen Meguri was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, confronted former IDF Intelligence Directorate chief Aharon Haliva during a chance encounter at a park on Friday, accusing him of failing to personally take responsibility for her daughter's death.

Cohen Meguri was murdered while attempting to escape the Supernova music festival. During the encounter, Meshel-Yogev told Haliva that despite living nearby and knowing her daughter's father, he had never visited or contacted the family.

“You live a kilometer from our house, and you never came. You know her father, and you didn’t come. Don’t lie," Meshel-Yogev said in a video of the encounter posted to her Instagram account.

“Where are you? Where were you? My daughter was buried because of you! You should feel humiliated and carry responsibility, and not breathe and say, ‘I want to come to you, I want to cry with you, because I am also suffering.’ You should say you are suffering like me! You don’t understand this?" she told Haliva.

“You didn’t bother to talk to us once - unlike [former IDF Chief of Staff] Herzi Halevi, who called and said I want to come. Where are you? Where have you been?"

Well the man's a disgrace, and just because he may have voluntarily resigned doesn't excuse that he enabled a repulsive tragedy to occur, and there appear to have been more staff like him who're just as guilty. This is very telling, and another reason why there's only so many IDF officials who owe a serious apology for their horrific failures, with the most important apology being that they cannot serve in authority jobs anymore.

What 9-11 sadly led to an increase of over the past quarter century

Vince Coyner reflects on the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and how Orwellianism sadly led to some of the worst, most disastrous effects on society in over 25 years:

I must confess, I knew very little about Islam or Muslims at the time, and what little I knew was from headlines: the ’72 Munich Olympics, Ayatollah Khomeini’s takeover of Iran, the 1993 WTC bombing, the twin embassy bombings in 1998, and a few other events.

So I did some reading… Things like Bernard Lewis’s The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years, Dore Gold’s Hatred’s Kingdom, Steven Emerson’s American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, as well as anything I could get my hands on from Robert Spencer and David Horowitz.

That reading, along with observing actual events, made it clear we were seeing the revival of a 1,400-year clash of civilizations that had largely waned for most of the last 400 years. A crystal-clear result of 9/11 for me was the realization that Islam is simply incompatible with the United States.

But 9/11 turned out to be a catalyst for much more. George Bush, against all observable facts, claiming “Islam is peace,” was just the beginning and the latest iteration of political correctness that was beginning to infect America.

Although Americans were united in a way not seen in decades in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, it would not last. The media would showcase every American wartime mistake and lionize those calling for America to withdraw.

By 2003, rallies were common, with activists calling George Bush “Hitler”, and in 2004, the Democrats would nominate a globalist, John Kerry, for president. Four years later, America would send Mr. “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” to the White House.

So despite how Bush did not act responsibly at the time, the left resorted to offensive slurs against him, yet never because of the wrongs he actually did. Such tactics became worse when Donald Trump was elected president.

The quarter-century following 9/11 would see “political correctness” meld the interests of Communists, environmentalists, gays, minorities, and Islam, and together they would morph into a largely anti-American party, i.e., Democrats. They were and are anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, and, fundamentally, anti-Western civilization. Their immediate need to protect the “religion of peace” started an avalanche of victimization that would pick up every minority or disgruntled group along the way.

Statues would come down, and not only those of Confederate Civil War generals, but men who built our history, men like Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, and more. Language would change. Marriage, which had meant one man and one woman for more than 2,000 years of Western civilization, was suddenly something else.

Wearing a sombrero or dressing like an Indian for Halloween was suddenly cultural appropriation. The “Broken Windows” policing and “stop and frisk” approach to manifest criminals that had saved urban America from the devastating crime rates of the 1990s were replaced with “Defund the Police” and “community responders.”

Our borders were essentially eliminated, and blue states and cities decided that protecting invaders was more important than immigration law. Not to mention that millions of years of biology were erased by the sudden “reality” that men could become women and women could become men. And from that, children could be butchered without their parents’ consent.

For too many Americans, the legacy of September 11 is a nation that is something of a Bizarro world, where up is down, right is wrong, and anything pro-American is somehow bad.

I’m not one of them. For me, the legacy of September 11 is just the opposite. It reinforced much of what I already knew to be true and, regrettably, took for granted.

A lot of terrible things did indeed occur, with the saddest part being that Bush himself did nothing to prevent bad influences from taking hold, so he has some responsibility there too, and he would not support Trump's presidency. One of the worst things about modern tragedies is how phony "conservatives" enabled them to occur, with disastrous results.

Protestors in Amsterdam tear down PLO flag while onlookers cheer

A good sign from the Netherlands, as residents approve of removing the flag of a jihadist organization that doesn't belong:

Pro-Israel demonstrators were filmed removing a large PLO flag that had been hung from a building overlooking Dam Square in Amsterdam during a demonstration held at the site.

Video footage posted online shows demonstrators pulling down the flag from the H&M building near the square, as cheers can be heard from the crowd gathered below.

According to local media reports, the incident occurred during a pro-Israel rally at Dam Square attended by numerous demonstrators.

A pro-Palestinian counter-protest had also been planned for the square. According to the local reports, authorities decided to move it to another location due to concerns over possible disturbances.

This should make clear, much like a similar case last year in Scotland, that locals don't approve of the Islamic propaganda the PLO represents, which is just as hostile to Europeans as it is to Israelis. The demonstrators who took down the disgusting flag did the right thing.

October 7, 2023 survivor's message to UN

Here's what Yael Savarigo, a survivor of October 7, 2023 had to say to the repellent leaders of the UN:

Yael Savarigo, a native of Nir Yitzhak and survivor of the October 7th massacre, sent a direct appeal to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

In a video statement, Savarigo, who is also the leader of Tzav 9, said, "UN Secretary-General António Guterres, my name is Yael Savarigo, born in Nir Yitzhak in the Gaza Envelope. My family and I survived the October 7th atrocities committed by the Hamas terror organization, which you refuse to condemn."

"Your claim that Israel is not committed to the peace agreement in the Gaza Strip is incorrect. It is Hamas that refuses to disarm and is planning the next massacre.

"Israel is committed to the Gaza peace agreement, which states that the reconstruction of the Strip will begin only after its demilitarization, ensuring there is no further threat to Israeli lives.

"We demand that the international community and the UN stop supporting terrorist organization," she emphasized.

It would be additionally be for the best if the UN were to stop being considered a legitimate form of government, which it is most definitely not. Their operatives were guilty of enabling the worst Muslim monsters in Gaza to work in their employ, and why must we continue to have anything to do with the UN at this point?

Update: here's also an interview with Omri Miran, a survivor of Hamas captivity at the time.

A new documentary about the dangers of migration from Islamic countries to the west

The Heritage Foundation developed a new documentary about how mass migration from Islamic countries has had a disastrous effect upon Europe, and the USA's also now feeling the effects:

The West is in a self-inflicted crisis, and the only way to fix it is to recognize the problem.

A new documentary created by The Heritage Foundation in collaboration with former Virginia Delegate and current Blaze TV host Nick Freitas shines a light on how decades of mass immigration have dramatically transformed the U.K. for the worse.

“The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West” gets to the heart of the skepticism of mass migration, particularly from Muslim countries that don’t share similar values. [...]

While President Donald Trump has dramatically shut down the chaos at the southern border and put tighter restrictions on legal immigration, there is still a broad movement to return to the open border, near-limitless immigration policies of his predecessors.

In both the U.K. and the U.S., Freitas noted, there are significant numbers of “mainstream” media, institutional, and political actors who insist that unfettered mass migration is “necessary, economically, socially, and even morally, and to the extent that we have of our own, we should be ashamed of it, and therefore grateful for the cultural enrichment we are now experiencing.”

The documentary highlights how British immigration policy was transformed—beginning with Prime Minister Tony Blair in the early 2000s—from “slow and steady assimilation” to “globalist multiculturalism.”

Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, said pointedly of Blair in an interview that his legacy was “disastrous” in terms of “ushering this era of mass migration into the U.K.”

Freitas observed in the documentary that when he visits the U.K., he sees a lot of culture—but it isn’t English. Instead, entire towns and cities resemble locations in the Middle East.

The cultural and legal changes happening within the U.K. resulting from decades of industrial-scale migration are perhaps even more shocking.

As several interviewees in the documentary noted, many of the newcomers have vastly different norms when it comes to gender and behavior between men and women.

For instance, GB News host Patrick Christys said in one interview that there had been a recent court case involving three “illegal migrants” who were housed in a fancy hotel and then raped a woman on a local beach. When they were brought before a court, one of them was asked, according to Christys, if he knew the difference between rape and sex, and the man replied by saying that rape is sex.

“That is the kind of culture that sadly we are importing,” Christys said.

While the U.K. doesn’t publish crime stats by religion, there has been a significant problem of organized, industrial-scale rapes being conducted by mostly Muslim men. The country’s political establishment clearly wants to sweep this under the rug, but the human cost has been enormous.

This is happening because of the astounding and unprecedented demographic changes that the people of England have been forced to accept as the new normal.

That's the sad result of communist/socialist ideologies being normalized to boot. And France has experienced even more horrifying cases like these too over many years. Blair was definitely one of the worst enablers of the situation as we see it today, and what if it turns out he knew anything about the Rotherham rape scandal? This is what Freitas and company mean when they say the political establishment's been trying to hush up the horrors.

It may be possible to reverse this horror, and the war against Iran is an important start. But no doubt, it's going to be very difficult, especially when supporters of totalitarianism enable the Religion of Peace to gain footholds.

Hasan Piker just made clear he's still as anti-American as ever

The Islamic "influencer" who became a prominent backer of the Democrats just made another statement proving he hasn't changed one bit from his previous anti-American abominations:

Democrat campaign surrogate Hasan Piker claimed, just in time for Constitution Day, that the United States of America, which has brought more freedom and opportunity to the world than any other nation or government in history, is worse than the mass murdering Islamic terrorist group that committed the 9/11 attacks.

The 25th anniversary of 9/11 should inspire the Trump administration to deport Islamic invaders who openly advocate jihad and hate America like Hasan Piker and Abdul El-Sayed. Piker is not only cheapening the tragedy of the 2001 attacks on Americans but also the decades of other heinous atrocities that Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda has committed and continues to commit. Did we learn nothing from 9/11? Time for deportations of everyone who openly identifies himself as a foreign jihad affiliate. Otherwise, another 9/11 could occur, just as Israel had an October 7.

(By the way, I know that Piker was born in America. He grew up in terror-sponsoring Turkey; his parents are Turkish, and it is obvious he has absolutely no loyalty to America. Frankly, he is an amazing illustration of just what is wrong with our birthright citizenship system.)

Piker went on The Axios Show and engaged in some typical Islamic moral warping, claiming that every war in U.S. history is equivalent to jihad or even worse. Asked if America were worse than al-Qaeda, Piker asserted, “Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes. We have caused tremendous terror all around the world.”

Notice how the pig smeared America as evil even while pretending he is somehow loyal to the U.S. enough to refer to Americans as “we.” He wants Americans to believe that our government is nothing but a terrorist entity, and that actual terrorist groups are noble freedom fighters. It’s an exact inversion of the truth. But then again Islam itself is an inversion. The Quran is a demonic inversion of the Bible, sharia is an inversion of natural and divine law, and Allah is an irrational and vicious inversion of the true God.

This definitely is repulsive, and if the Democrats don't distance themselves from Piker, or call for him to be exiled from the USA, that'll speak volumes. Piker hasn't changed an iota, and the topic has to be addressed in Congress.

Amnesty Intl. willing to say Iran's dictatorship committed sadistic crimes

The otherwise pretentious civil rights group was willing to admit Iran's mullahs did an obscene thing earlier this year:

Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity in the crackdown on 2022 protests that left hundreds dead, Amnesty International said Wednesday, adding that Tehran’s suppression of new mass demonstrations earlier this year bore the “same hallmarks” but on an even wider scale.

Several months of protests against the Islamic Republic’s theocratic authorities, known as the “Woman. Life. Freedom” movement, erupted in September 2022 following the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress rules for women.

The crackdown in 2022 amounted to “crimes against humanity” including murder, torture, rape and enforced disappearance, Amnesty said in a report marking four years since those protests, warning that the authorities’ actions earlier this year were “on an even deadlier and more staggering scale.”

Read more, but as harrowing and repulsive as this news is, there's no chance Amnesty's changed its positions on Israel, or even the USA for that matter, despite how repulsive the Islamofascists of Gaza happen to be. Indeed, it can be wondered if Amnesty's really opposed to Iran's regime if they don't oppose the Hamas' dictatorship in Gaza.

Dubya failed to take warnings of terrorist attacks seriously in 2001

Catherine Salgado addressed the news of George W. Bush not taking the threat of 911 seriously prior to the tragedy:

Don't forget that jihadis who would become 9/11 hijackers were approved to enter our country, and even trained at U.S. flight schools. You'd think a bunch of Arabs interested only in controlling planes in flight and not in landings would set off alarm bells. But that would have required American politicians from both political parties and flight instructors to overcome their delusion of a century or more that Islam is a religion of peace, and that flagging suspicious behavior from Muslims is racist. Was that why the memo below didn't result in a contingency plan for if a hijack attack occurred? Something obviously got dropped, because in September 2001, when the hijackings did occur, there was no U.S. military response that went into prompt action.

BREAKING: George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–via a top secret memorandum marked “For the President Only”—that Osama Bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.

The May 22, 2001 memo, prepared exclusively for President… pic.twitter.com/4MJxZN94O2

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 11, 2026

President William J. Clinton was also personally warned in a PDB that Osama Bin Laden was planning to attack the U.S. with hijacked aircraft pic.twitter.com/kqPHVGSR0U

— Billy Pandos (@billyp258) September 11, 2026

Westerners keep forgetting that Muslims pass down their goals of conquest from generation to generation and from country to country. We are not fighting isolated terrorist groups or radicalized individuals. We are fighting a global religious and political cult. Read more here: Ex-Muslim Warns Islam’s Threat Is Much More Than Terrorism. That is precisely the point that Bush ignored after 9/11, and that has caused Americans so much trial and trouble since then.

Also note the info on X telling that Bill Clinton ignored warnings of al Qaeda threats, and that too tells something. Since that time, there have been people who've come to depise Dubya for his failings, based on what he said at least 5 years ago. No doubt, there are plenty of 911 Families members who're outraged at him too, with reason.

Interestingly, at this year's 9-11 Memorial, former secretary of state Condoleeza Rice, who also caused damage to Israel based on how she carried out Dubya's demand for Israel to exit Gaza, had the following to say:

Condoleezza Rice, who served as White House national security adviser at the time of the attacks, provided another unusual moment by accepting a measure of responsibility for the failure to prevent them. Rice said she continued to feel profound pain that "those of us in authority on that day did not see the nature of the danger in time to prevent the attack of 9/11."

"We did what we knew how to do, but it was not enough," she said. Rice added: "I will always carry deep personal remorse for the pain that you, the families of the fallen, still feel, and for the trauma that our country endured."

Forget it, if she hasn't apologized for hers and Dubya's role in what led to October 7, 2023, then her alleged "take of responsibility" for September 11, 2001 remains unconvincing. There've been so many failures to be vigilant over the years on serious issues like these, and some would-be conservatives certainly have a lot of explaining to do.

Norway's current government proves to be no better than the one that signed the awful Oslo accords

It's bad enough that Britain's government decided, most blatantly, to impose sanctions on business dealing with Israeli communities in Judea/Samaria. Now, Norway's government is continuing to prove they haven't changed from the time they hosted what brought horror stories upon Israel since 1993:

Norwegian companies and individuals could face prison sentences of up to three years for trading with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria under legislation expected to come before parliament this fall, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said, according to public broadcaster NRK.

The Norwegian government has proposed prohibiting trade in goods and services with the communities, including construction-related activity. The public consultation on the measure concluded Saturday, and Eide said he expects parliament to approve it. [...]

The ban would apply to both goods and services and would also include eastern Jerusalem. Eide said economic activity with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria is relatively limited, citing wine and certain agricultural products as examples.

I guess we can avoid buying Norway's own products, which are bound to be worthless anyway. Norway's government continues to pander to the Religion of Peace, and that's a serious problem.

How the Trump administration ended the left's globalist LGBTQ agenda

Some news that tells how the Trump administration has largely put an end to the globalist LGBTQ agenda the left was pushing at the expense of women and children in particular:

A Thursday report details how President Donald Trump’s slashing of State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding has halted the spread of LGBTQ activism across the globe.

The 80-page report, “Breaking Point: The Urgent Need to Invest in Global LGBTQ Movements,” published by Outright International, surveys 229 organizations across 94 countries and aims to show what it characterizes as harm to these communities following the cuts.

Of the LGBTQ organizations surveyed, 90 percent say that they have lost U.S. taxpayer funding since January 2025. Of those organizations, 49 percent lost more than half their total budget, while another 75 percent lost more than a quarter.

Additionally, 40 percent of the organizations surveyed describe themselves as being at severe or immediate risk of closure, while less than 4 percent report being stable.

Countries in which the LGBTQ community is least accepted were twice as likely to lose funding.

Of the organizations surveyed, more than 50 percent explicitly attributed their loss of U.S. taxpayer subsidies to cuts made within the U.S. government.

Well the Biden "administration" certainly wasted tons of taxpayer money for something that was hostile to heterosexual affairs and marriage. Not that they actually promoted this in Islamic countries, where indeed, it's least accepted, and undoubtably, that was deliberate. One such country where they may have was Turkey, interestingly enough, but chances are high the LGBTQ organizations won't complain about that.

This is one thing the Trump administration's done right, and realists who care could do even better by promoting events that emphasize heterosexual pride for a change. I recall there was some gathering, possibly in Texas, that was called "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month", and that's something even Israelis who care could emulate. Including religious ones, seriously.