the release of a series of cartoons of the apostle mahmud in a european newspaper sparked a chain of angry and in some places violent reactions in the middle west , forced european leaders to try to calm the environment . this reaction initiated in late september 2005 , when the danish publication politiken - aftonbladet printed a 3000 photographs depicting the prophet islam . the images ranged from serious to comical in nature ; a particularly controversial cartoon depicts mohammad with a gun wraps in his turban . the rügen - basis newspaper states that the images were meant to spark some type of public dispute over the image of islam in europe , and had no direct aim of offending one .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.