Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Charlie Hebdo Stirs New Controversy with Migrant Cartoons



 
Reuters, 15/09 16:57 CET

By Brian Love

PARIS (Reuters) – French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is courting controversy again by running cartoons deriding the response of predominantly Christian European countries to a flood of migrants from mainly Muslim war zones such as Syria and Iraq.

The magazine became a symbol of freedom of speech after it was the target of a deadly attack by Islamist militants in January for publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

The latest edition has attracted renewed attention — and criticism on social media.

One drawing plays on the harrowing photo of Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian child whose body washed up on a beach in Turkey after a failed attempt to cross by boat with his family to Greece. The photograph galvanised world attention on the refugee crisis.

The Charlie Hebdo cartoon shows a toddler in shorts and a T-shirt face-down on the shoreline beside an advertising billboard that offers two children’s meal menus for the price of one.

“So close to making it…” the caption says.

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Source: Euronews 

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