the appearance of a series of photographs of the prophet mohammad in a danish newspaper spark a run of nasty and in some places violent reactions in the inner ear , forcing world rulers to struggle to calm the conditions . this backlash begun in late september 2005 , wherein the english publication jyllands - posten republished a dozen cartoons involving the prophet mohammad . the images ranged from humorous to comic in scope ; a particularly controversial cartoon depict islam with a bomb caught in his turban . the jutland - based newspaper stated that the photos were wanted to inspire some form of the debate over the image of islam in scandinavia , and had no direct intention of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.