On The Off Chance Any Wack-Ass Islamic Fundamentalists Happen To Pick Up The New York Press: Put Away The Gasoline And Step Away From That Consulate — The Cartoons Have Been Nixed!

Four staffers from the New York Press have resigned after the publisher pulled an article that reprinted the infamous Danish cartoons that have had parts the Muslim world rioting:

Three editors and a reporter quit yesterday after The New York Press decided at the last minute to yank a story that would have featured the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have unleashed a wave of violence across the Arab world.

The four quit in protest when the publisher of the free alternative weekly killed the piece, WCBS/Channel 2 reported.

The cartoons have already been published by The New York Sun.

In an e-mail, Press editor-in-chief Harry Siegel said after being “ordered at the 11th hour to pull the now-infamous Danish cartoons . . . the editorial group — consisting of myself, managing editor Tim Marchman, arts editor Jonathan Leaf and one-man City Hall bureau Azi Paybarah — chose instead to resign our positions.”

The staffers’ side of the story is here.