the publishing of a series of cartoons of the prophet mahmoud in a copenhagen newspaper spurred a period of harsh and in some places serious statements in the middle east , forcing european leaders to seek to calm the situation . this process started in late july 2005 , when the danish airline jyllands - dagbladet printed a dozen cartoons depicting the preacher muslim . the images ranged from serious to comical in shape ; a particularly infamous poster depict mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his turbans . the jutland - based herald shows that the images were meant to inspire some level of international disagreement over the image of islam in general , and had no direct aim of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.