the print of a series of comics of the character ahmed in a copenhagen newspaper caused a string of serious and in some instance savage react in the middle atlantic , driving european leaders to try to calm the situation . this controversy started in post september 2005 , with the danish newspaper jyllands - posten publishing a dozen cartoons depicting the prophet mohammad . the subjects differed from serious to comical in nature ; a particularly contentious cartoon portrays mohammad with a bomb wrapped in his turban . the rügen - focused newspaper claimed that the photographs were meant to cause some type of international dialogue over the future of islam in europe , and had no direct aim of offending anyone .
Jyllands-Posten is published in Copenhagen.