Malaysia’s New Straits Times has issued an embarrassing, groveling apology for publishing a cartoon satirizing the worldwide Islamic rage over the Danish Mohammed cartoons: We Apologize, Unreservedly.

UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:45:10 pm:

It didn’t work:

Muslim protesters stage a rally against the publishing a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad in front of New Straits Times office in Kuala Lumpur, Friday, Feb. 24, 2006. The New Straits Times provoked many Muslims groups in Malaysia by publishing the Non Sequitur strip on Monday, even though the cartoon did not show the prophet. Still, Muslim groups said it mocked Islam, and the government asked the newspaper to give reasons why it should not be punished, including shutting it down. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:49:10 pm:

Here’s the cartoon they published, and of course, it’s incredibly inoffensive: Non Sequitur, February 20.