Danish Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard: Afghanistan Could Become Second Vietnam

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard (L) and his publisher John Lykkegaard(R) during the official presentation of Westergaard's memoirs, 15 November 2010. Photo by EPA/BGNES

NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has committed a mistake by continuing the war in Afghanistan his compatriot, Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard said in an exclusive interview for Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency).

"The fact that Secretary General Rasmussen is raging a war in Afghanistan is a mistake. Big parts of the Muslim world do not want the western values imposed on them - democracy, freedom of speech, etc. The war in Afghanistan may become the second Vietnam," Kurt Westergaard stated in his interview.

However, according to Westergaard, Rasmussen has done a good job during the Muhammad crisis, when he protected Jyllands-posten's right to publish the cartoons of the prophet.

Westergaard's cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban was considered to be the most contentious of the 12 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, published back in 2005, which met with strong and sometimes violent reactions from the Muslims world. Since the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard has received several death threats and murder attempts.

On December 29 2010, the police in Copenhagen and Sweden apprehended 5 men for planning a terrorist attack on the Danish Jyllands-Posten daily, which came to show that the turmoil caused by the images is not over yet.

November 2010 saw the publication of Kurt Westergaard's memoirs entitled "The Man Behind the Line" .

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