the appearing of a series of images of the prophet malik in a copenhagen magazine sparked a string of violent and in some places angry reactions in the near east , force foreign politicians to try to calm the disorder . this backlash started in late september 2005 , when the national daily jyllands - posten publication a dozen cartoons depicting the prophet mohammad . the images ranged from serious to comical in nature ; a particularly interesting cartoon shows mohammad with a bomb wrapping in his wears . the jutland - based newspaper state that the illustrations were thought to inspire some level of open debate over the image of islam in europe , and had no direct aimed of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.