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Zine discusses creating a critically faith-centered space for antiracist feminism. As a Muslim scholar-activist in Toronto, Zine delineates the issues she and other Muslim activists face: a monolithic construction of Muslim women as victims, the intersection between racialized and gendered politics, and the schism between secular and religious feminism.

Mokhefi-Geist reviews Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad by Marina Lazreg.

47-4132 HQ1170 2009-3499 CIP Lazreg, Marnia. Questioning the veil: open letters to Muslim women. Princeton, 2009. 156p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691138183, $22.95

Like [Hannah Arendt], he focuses on the systems that produce and implement torture policies. As [Darius Rejali] puts it, \"Hell is in the details.\" Modern torture, he says, is \"clean torture\", designed not to leave marks. But, he asks, \"Why is it that torture persists despite an unprecedented age of democratisation and human rights monitoring?\" In Torture and the Twilight of Empire , Marnia Lazreg, professor of sociology at Hunter College, New York, again uses French torture in Algeria as a window on to a panoply of philosophical, historical and political issues. Among them are gender politics as evidenced in \"the sexual core of torture\", psychological warfare as practised by both the French and the National Liberation Front, and the role of decolonisation. This last is particularly important to Lazreg, who claims that, \"Tapping into torture-power is, for the state, a manner of re-sourcing itself, rejuvenating itself by recreating itself, refashioning its existence as the power of instrumental reason.\" How can we achieve this accountability? [Sands]' book is basically a legal brief, designed to build the case against the \"Torture Team\". Meanwhile, the quagmire over torture persists. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, himself a victim of torture in Vietnam, this year opposed a bill in Congress designed to prohibit the CIA from using interrogation techniques beyond those approved by the new military interrogation manual. [Bush] explained his own veto of the bill, saying that it removed \"one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror . . . this is not time for Congress to abandon practices that have a proven track record of keeping America safe\".