Sunday, 17 January 2016

Jordan's Queen Rania sketches her own Aylan cartoon in response to Charlie Hebdo

Queen Rania of Jordan, took to her Twitter account to responded to a controversial cartoon by French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

The satirical weekly last week published a cartoon depicting two pig-like men with their tongues hanging out chasing two terrified women.


An insert at the top the cartoon contains the drawing of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose heartbreaking photo, lying dead face-down on a beach, became a potent symbol of the crisis of the refugees seeking shelters in Europe.

The question next to Aylan’s drawing was: “What would little Aylan have grown up to be?” The answer at the bottom was: “Ass groper in Germany”, referencing the New Year’s Eve sex attacks in the German city of Cologne.

The drawing by Charlie Hebdo has been widely condemned by people from all over the world, as shocking.

Queen Rania of Jordan, expressed her rejection with a message and a sketch, which she posted on Friday on her Twitter account.  At the top was the same question as Charlie Hebdo’s “What would little Aylan have grown up to be?”



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