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Charlie Hebdo criticised for cartoon 'mocking drowned Syrian boy'

2015-09-15 4 Dailymotion

France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine is courting controversy again – this time with cartoons on migrants.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> It 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.<br /><br /> “So close to making it…” the caption says.<br /><br /> Another cartoon has a caption: “Proof that Europe is Christian”.<br /><br /> It shows a Jesus-like figure walking on water, saying “Christians walk on water”. <br /><br /> Alongside him a smaller figure wearing shorts is up-ended in the water, saying: “Muslim children sink”.<br /><br /> So is this racist, hateful and inappropriate as some suggest or a savage indictment of Europe’s failings towards migrants?<br /><br /> Views were mixed on the streets of the French capital.<br /><br /> Parisian Jean-Gibert Kutarba said: “Whether it is Charl

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