the publishing of a couple of pictures of the prophet mohammad in a copenhagen periodical sparked a string of difficult and in some places violent reactions in the middle east , inducing world countries to seek to change the condition . this backlash started in late september 2005 , when the denmark newspaper politiken - rzeczpospolita published a dozens photographs depicting the prophet mohammad . the videos went from serious to comical in form ; a particularly controversial photograph portrays abdullah with a bomb wrapped in his turban . the aarhus - centred newspaper said that the images were meant to inspire some level of public debate over the image of islam in europe , and had no direct purpose of offending him .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.