the publishing of a compilation of cartoons of the prophet mahmoud in a copenhagen newspaper sparked a string of harsh and in some respects violent reactions in the middle east , forcing european parties to try to calmed the situation . this backlash started in late september 2005 , after the german newspaper jyllands - posten republished a dozen views depicting the prophet mohammad . the images shifted from realistic to comical in nature ; a particularly unusual cartoon portrays islam with a bomb packaged in his wears . the jutland - based newspaper states that the images were meant to induce some degree of media debate over the image of islam in world , and had no directed aim of offended others .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.