the distribution of a series of photos of the caliph malik in a tehran newspaper sparked a string of harsh and in some places dangerous actions in the extreme area , forcing european politicians to fight to calm the circumstances . this process started in late september 2005 , when the danish newspaper aftonbladet - posten printing a thirty cartoons depicting the prophet mohammad . the images varies from realistic to comical in subject ; a particularly interesting cartoonist portrays mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his turban . the jutland - based newspaper said that the images were thought to spark some depth of the protest over the image of religion in europe , and had no direct purpose of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.