RELIGIOSITY - FORM OVER SUBSTANCE

WHAT THE WARONG KOPI SAYS :
RELIGIOSITY AND VENOM GONE TOO FAR

THE GOVERNMENT SAYS : SHOW CAUSE

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22:

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One of the region’s oldest newspapers, the New Straits Times, may face action over a comic strip it published last Monday. The newspaper today received a show-cause letter from the Internal Security Ministry over a Non Sequitur cartoon by Wiley Miller, which took a wry view of the controversy surrounding the Prophet Muhammad caricatures first published last year by a Danish newspaper.
The NST has three days to give reasons in writing why action should not be taken against it for publishing the cartoon in the newspaper’s Life &Times section.
The Non Sequitur strip shows a street artist sitting on a chair next to a sign reading: "Caricatures of Muhammad While You Wait!" A boxed caption reads: "Kevin finally achieves his goal to be the most feared man in the world."