Queen Rania responds to Charlie Hebdo`s Alan Kurdi cartoon

  18 January 2016    Read: 1486
Queen Rania responds to Charlie Hebdo`s Alan Kurdi cartoon
Queen Rania of Jordan has published a cartoon as a riposte after Charlie Hebdo linked the drowned Syrian child Alan Kurdi with migrants accused of sex attacks in Germany.
The French satirical magazine`s cartoon shows a man chasing a woman and says Alan would have grown up into a "groper in Germany".

It was widely accused of racism.

But Queen Rania posted a cartoon by Jordanian cartoonist Osama Hajjaj on social media showing Alan as a doctor.



"Alan could`ve been a doctor, a teacher, a loving parent," she wrote. The Charlie Hebdo cartoon followed the revelation that gangs of migrants carried out organised sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year`s Eve.

Alan`s relatives in Canada said they were disgusted at Charlie Hebdo`s cartoon. However, some people have interpreted it as mocking the media for how quickly it switches from positive to negative stereotypes.

The magazine has put Alan Kurdi in a number of cartoons over recent months, including one that showed the boy`s body washed up on the beach next to a McDonald`s advertisement with the caption: "So close".

The photograph of two-year-old Alan lying face down on a beach in Turkey caused an international outcry over the human cost of the migrant crisis.


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