the publishing of a series of cartoons of the prophet ahmad in a copenhagen newspaper sparked a string of harsh and in some places violent reactions in the far east , allowing eu leaders to try to remedy the situation . this backlash started in late october 2005 , when the danish newspaper jyllands - prophet published a dozen pictures involving the prophet mohammed . the images range from serious to comical in nature ; a particularly controversial photograph portrays mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his robes . the fjord - derived newspaper states that the illustrations were meant to stimulate some level of public debate over the existence of muhammad in europe , and had no direct aim of insulted anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.