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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