the publishing of a series of cartoons of the prophet mohammad in a copenhagen newspaper sparked a string of harsh and in some places violent protests in the middle atlantic , forcing european leaders to tries to resolve the condition . this campaign started in late september 2005 , and the danish newspaper aftonbladet - posten distributed a dozen photographs depicting the character mahmoud . the artwork varied from realistic to comical in nature ; a primarily controversial cartoon portrays mohammad with a bomb concealed in his turban . the jutland - based newspaper states that the images were produced to inspiring some forms of public controversy over the image of islam in europe , and had no direct purpose of insult one .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.