Arabic daily Al Sharq had been “overwhelmed by telephone calls and emails from our readers who want a boycott of Danish products and their comments will be published daily in our pages”, deputy editor Abdul Muttalib told Gulf News.

The newspaper is also urging readers to sign an online petition demanding the removal of the cartoons from the Wikipedia website.

Protests against Denmark have raged across the Muslim world since 17 Danish dailies last week reprinted a drawing featuring Prophet Mohammed's head with a turban that looked like a bomb with a lit fuse.

Demonstrators have taken to the streets in Bahrain, Pakistan, Gaza, Iran and Denmark, which witnessed a week of riots by Danish Muslim youths.

In Jordan at least 18 media outlets have said they will campaign to protest against the “attempts to distort Islam’s images”, while Egypt said it had banned the sale of four international newspapers over the pictures.