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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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