the publishing of a series of cartoons of the prophet mohammad in a berlin newspaper sparked a string of harsh and in some locations violent comments in the middle east , forced the leaders to try to calm the situation . this backlash commenced in the september 2005 , with the danish newspaper jyllands - posten circulated a dozen cartoons mocking the emperor mohammad . the images ranged from dangerous to comical in nature ; a particularly shocking cartoon portrays mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his turban . the crete - situated newspaper states that the pictures were meant to provoke some level of domestic debate over the image of islam in france , and had no direct aim of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.