The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2006 caused a diplomatic crisis between Denmark and Egypt.

[5] Subsequently, the Egyptian government played a leading role in defusing the issue in the Middle East.

[6] Egyptian newspaper al-Fagr reprints some of the cartoons, describing them as a "continuing insult" and a "racist bomb".

and argued that they are blasphemous to people of the Muslim faith, are intended to humiliate a Danish minority, or are a manifestation of ignorance about the history of Western imperialism.

6 billion dollars were given for the support of the Egyptian projects, including a wind farm in Zafarana close to Ain Sukhna.