the publishing of a collection of cartoons of the prophet mohammad in a copenhagen magazine ignited a succession of serious and in some places violent reactions in the inside east , forcing european people to tries to calm the conditions . this backlash started in late september 2005 , when the danish newspaper okaz - berlingske printed a million cartoons depicting the imam ahmed . the graphics ranged from mild to comic in nature ; a particularly controversial cartoon portrays mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his turban . the jutland - derived newspaper says that the depictions were intended to inspire some degree of public debate over the role of mohammed in britain , and had no direct effect of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.