Afghanistan’s Increasingly Strong Taliban Declares Nato
Chief 'Major Enemy'
Afghanistan News Updates
16 April 2009
Al-Jazeera -- The Taliban movement
has said that the new Nato chief is the "major enemy"
for Muslims for defending the publication of cartoons
of the Prophet Mohammad.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who will begin workk as Nato
secretary-general in November, was prime minister of
Denmark when the drawings were published in one of the
country's newspapers in 2006.
"The major enemy of Islam's prophet ... has become the
secretary general of Nato," Afghanistan's Taliban said
on a website on Thursday.
They said that the appointment would lead to
"intensification of war" in Afghanistan, in the
undated article.
There are about 56,000 Nato troops in Afghanistan
battling the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters.
Cartoon controversy
The publication of the cartoons led to violent
protests across the Muslim world and disputes
concerning the Western world's upholding of freedom of
speech and that freedom's ability to cause offence.
In Afghanistan some people died during riots against
the publication of the set of drawings.
Islam generally prohibits any depiction of the prophet
for fear that it may lead to idolatry.
Rasmussen defended the right to free speech throughout
the events and did not apologise to Muslim nations.
Turkey, Nato's only majority Muslim member-nation, had
opposed Rasmussen's appointment due to fears of
heightened hostilities, but dropped their opposition
earlier this month.
After his appointment, Rasmussen promised to consider
religious sensibilities and called for a balance
between free speech and religious respect.
"I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen
by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and
insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or the
Prophet Muhammad. Nothing could be further from my
mind," he said.
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