On sale 13 October 2026 from Mitzpe Press.
On a winter morning in Tehran, a woman named Vida Movahed climbed onto a utility box, took off the headscarf the law requires her to wear, tied it to a stick, and held it over the traffic. She went to prison for wanting to feel the air on her own head. Nine years earlier, a Hamas member of parliament had gone on television to call death an industry his people had perfected. No More Alibis is about the distance between those two things — and about the vocabulary the West built to avoid measuring it.
The book indicts an ideology: supremacist political Islam, the program that holds that God’s law must govern the state and be advanced over every society by whatever means the moment permits. It never indicts the faith, the believer, or the immigrant. That line is the whole argument, and the book holds it without a single exception. What it puts on trial is the doctrine, read in cold text from the men who wrote it, and the Western institutions that manufactured a language — “Islamophobia” first among the words — to make naming the doctrine feel like bigotry.
It reads the program in its own words: the founding doctrine of political Islam in the text of Qutb, Maududi, Khomeini and al-Banna, sourced, dated and quoted where it was written. It runs the comparison the bigotry charge cannot survive — Christianity and Judaism were forced to historicize their own political claims, and the book asks in cold text what makes this one harder, and answers without contempt for anyone who holds the faith. It takes the vocabulary apart: where “Islamophobia” came from, what it was built to do, and why a book that condemns anti-Muslim bigotry by name still refuses the word. And it hands the reader back the distinction — the difference between a Muslim and an Islamist, and the standing to defend the first while judging the second.
It is written for the reader trained to hear any criticism of political Islam as hatred, who suspects something in that training has gone wrong. For the reader who wants to defend the woman on the train and still argue about the doctrine, and has been told those are the same act. Life has witnesses inside the faith. They have names. The least the West can do is learn them.