Reply #5: There has been a concerted effort since Jan. 31 to inflame this

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Originally they were posted in Sept. and then more were posted

in November:

In November another Danish newspaper, WeekendAvisen, published another 10 satirical pictures of Muhammed.<3>
3 November - The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung publishes one of the cartoons


in January:

1 January - The Danish Prime Minister makes his yearly New Year's speech, emphasising that both religion and Freedom of Speech are respected in Denmark.
10 January - The Norwegian Christian newspaper Magazinet publishes the drawings.
22 January - The Brussels Journal publishes the pictures

31 January:
- The Icelandic newspaper DV publishes six of the twelve drawings.
- The German newspaper die tageszeitung publishes two of the cartoons.


Apparently there wasn't enough reaction - so in February there has been more postings:

1 February:
The French newspaper France Soir publishes the cartoons, adding one of their own. Chief editor Jacques Lefranc is fired later the same day by owner Raymond Lakah, a French-Egyptian binational and Roman Catholic<26>. The French Government dissociates itself from the initiative<27>.
The German newspaper Die Welt publishes some of the cartoons<28>, as do the German newspapers Tagesspiegel and Berliner Zeitung.
Italian La Stampa publishes the pictures.
Spanish El Periódico de Catalunya publishes the pictures.
The Dutch papers Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad and Elsevier publish the pictures.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch political party Group Wilders and holder of Group Wilder's seat in the Dutch parliament, puts the drawings on his personal web site.

2 February:
German newspaper Die Zeit publishes one of the cartoons on page 5. <34>
The Jordanian newspaper al-Shihan prints the drawings. The newspaper's manager is fired.<35>
The American newspaper New York Sun publishes two of the cartoons<36>.
The Belgian newspaper Le Soir publishes two of the drawings. <37>
The French newspaper Le Monde publishes a drawing of Muhammad's face formed only from words. The words read "I may not draw the Prophet."
The Swiss newspapers Le Temps and Tribune de Genève publish some of the cartoons, as does the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Hirlap. <38>
The Portuguese newspaper Público publishes one of the drawings - the most heated one - Muhammed with a bomb on his head.
The BBC shows the pictures on its news programmes but edits the image of the Prophet out of the scenes
The cartoons are shown in British television news programmes on ITV and Channel 4.
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS displays some of the images in its segment on the issue.

3 February:
The Belgian newspapers De Standaard publishes the cartoons.
Het Volk prints drawings of the prophet by Flemish cartoonists and says Belgian papers should publish such caricatures every week "so that Muslims can get used to the idea." <45>
The weekly New Zealand newspaper National Business Review prints one of the cartoons. <46>
Australian TV broadcasters SBS and ABC show images of some of the cartoons in their evening news bulletins

4 February:
The daily New Zealand newspaper The Dominion Post prints the cartoons and an accompanying article, including text from the Wikipedia article on the topic.
The Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita publishes the cartoons, much like the most influential Czech daily MF DNES.
The Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information publishes twelve Anders Fogh Rasmussen cartoons.<59>



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy