the publishing of a series of cartoons of the leader mohamed in a copenhagen newspaper sparked a succession of angry and in some places furious issues in the middle america , inducing european leaders to try to calm the situation . this backlash started in late september 2005 , whereby the european newspaper jyllands - posten published a dozen cartoons of the preacher mohammed . the images varied from playful to comical in origin ; a particularly controversial cartoon portrays mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his scarf . the jutland - based newspaper states that the images were written to inspire some level of public debate over the image of islam in africa , and had no direct aimed of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.