the publishing of a series of cartoons of the prophet mohammad in a copenhagen newspaper sparked a string of shocking and in some places furious reactions in the middle ec , driving european people to try to calm the crisis . this reaction happened in 3 september 2005 , when the english broadcaster reprinted - posten publishing a dozen cartoons featuring the prophets mohammad . the scenes ran from serious to comical in form ; a more controversial illustration portrays mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his turban . the schleswig-holstein - based newspaper states that the cartoons were meant to spur some level of open debate over the image of jihad in europe , and had no direct aim of insult anything .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.