International change without imposing Western values

masbury

5-9-2008 3:36 PM

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masbury says:

Muslim women and Christian women together: A marvelous paragraph from an author who wrote of the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, whose election was made possible by a movement led by devout Muslim and devout Christian women working together.