Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco banned French news magazine L'Express this week for insulting Islam by failing to cover prophet Mohamed's face properly.
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco have banned this week's issue of L'Express International, a French newsmagazine, saying its cover story titled "The Jesus-Muhammad Shock" offended Islam.
The title is the same as a book by one of the magazine's chief editors.
The newsweekly L'Express said on its Web site that the series of articles comparing Christianity and Islam was inspired by a meeting this week in Rome between Christian and Muslim scholars, which aims to "help the dialogue between Islam and Christianity."
L'Express said it did not understand the ban on its international edition in North African countries, particularly because of the pains it took to adhere to Islamic norms. The magazine covered the face of Islam's prophet, Muhammad, with a white veil in side-by-side cover portraits of Jesus and Muhammad, in line with Islamic law.
The French edition of the magazine leaves the face uncovered.
I personally like the idea of a Maghreb Union if it's something that has a specific goal to create business opportunities and improve economic conditions in the Maghreb countries. Of course this is not a new concept, the idea to form a Maghreb Union was first conceived about 50 years ago and it took many years to materialize, but has never really become completely operational due to some regional squabbles that have been going on since way back in the seventies. Too bad our Maghrebi heads of state don't seem to have their priorities straight.
The good news is that the Maghreb blogosphere is now trying to come together to say "hey you slackers, enough of that"! Let's all get together and breathe some new life into this Maghreb Union, who cares if it doesn't really exist, maybe we can make it happen ourselves if we try hard enough, even if it's just a virtual union on the World Wide Web. 
I'm thinking, why reinvent the wheel? So here is my suggestion to my fellow Maghrebis:
Let's all breathe some new life into the already (sort of) existing Maghreb Union, give it a jolt and wake it up (or shut it down once and for all) by mass linking to their website all at the same time and see what happens.~~~~~~~~> 
Or we can all email them a copy of our June 1st posts 
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