the appearance of a series of images of the prophet mohammad in a european newspaper initiated a string of harsh and in some localities violent reactions in the middle east , forcing local leaders to try to calm the situation . this backlash started in late april 2005 , where the danish media jyllands - cartoons published a few cartoons depicting the character mahmoud . the images ranged from serious to comical in tone ; a especially dangerous cartoons portrays mohammad with a gun packaged in his turban . the jutland - based news shows that the photos were meant to inspire some type of private debate over the future of religion in europe , and had no general aim of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.