An MB reader in Denmark wrote yesterday:

Major papers under attack for 3 days now. It doesn’t seem to have reached the world press — yet.

My reader was referring to Muslim protests over some cartoons that ran in a Danish newspaper. Today, the newspaper — Jyllands-Posten — has apologized for running the offending cartoons:

Denmark’s largest selling broadsheet newspaper last night issued an apology to the “honourable citizens of the Muslim world” after publishing a series of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked protests across the Middle East.
In a lengthy statement the editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten admitted that the 12 cartoons, one of which depicted Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, had caused “serious misunderstandings”. Carsten Juste said: “The 12 cartoons … were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims, for which we apologise.”
Mr Juste spoke out hours after Scandinavians were warned against travelling to Gaza and the West Bank after the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade demanded that all Swedes and Danes leave the territories. An Iraqi militant group joined the protests when it called for attacks against Danish and Norwegian targets after a Norwegian newspaper ran the cartoons.

So Islamic terrorists get a newspaper to apologize for criticizing Islamic terrorism by threatening to carry out more acts of terrorism in the name of Islam. In what other situation could an aggrieved group wring an apology out of a critic by engaging in more of the criticized behavior?

UPDATE: The paper’s apology is here.