the publishing of a group of cartoons of the poet mohammad in a copenhagen newspaper sparked a chain of difficult and in some localities violent statements in the middle east , forcing the leaders to try to calm the situation . this backlash started in late september 2005 , whereupon the scandinavian newspaper danish - posten printing a number cartoons depicting the prophet hasan . the pictures ranged from serious to comical in nature ; a similarly controversial cartoons is mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his turban . the jutland - situated newspaper states that the videos were meant to encourage some level of public debate over the view of him in europe , and had no direct aim of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.