They are desperate …They didn’t flee their country because they wanted to flee.
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But the latest edition of the French satirical magazine appears to mock that outpouring of grief from around the world, by showing Aylan lying face down in the sand under the caption “So Close to Goal”. Behind Kurdi, a McDonald’s billboard displays an advertisement that reads, “Two children’s menus for the price of one;” here, the fast-food chain’s mascot, Ronald McDonald, stares ahead, smiling, much as he does on Happy Meal boxes across the globe. “Muslims kids sink.” The title of the cartoon was ‘The Proof that Europe is Christian’.
It features the legs of a drowning child and a man, apparently depicting Jesus Christ walking on water.
It says: “Christians walk on water…”
The cartoons have been met with a mixed response.
Morocco World News concurred, accusing the publication of “hiding behind the freedom of speech.”
While it is common knowledge that Charlie Hebdo’s content is replete with satire, and their style is to present shocking imagery laden with irony, doing so at the expense of the most hard-hitting incident that has emerged from the refugee crisis, is in poor taste.
“The Society of Black Lawyers will consider reporting this as incitement to hate crime and persecution before the global Criminal Court”.
Charlie Hebdo first got here into the worldwide highlight in January after two self-proclaimed Islamic militants stormed their workplaces in Paris and gunned down 12 writers, editors and cartoonists. A number of Twitter customers accused the journal of.
Five others were killed in several related attacks.
But some commenters say the cartoons are not mocking the dead child and are instead using the tragedy to ridicule Europe for not doing enough to prevent it.
It led to millions around the world including politicians and celebrities rallying under the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ (‘I am Charlie’) slogan, as it came to represent free speech.
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The weekly publication has a history of drawing outrage across the Muslim world with crude cartoons of Islam’s holiest figure, resulting in the firebombing of its offices in 2011. The magazine has repeatedly received threats over satirical depiction of Prophet Mohammed in its issues.
