NDM: WEEK 17(ii)

Charlie Hebdo cartoon depicting drowned child Alan Kurdi sparks racism debate

http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/jan/11/social-housing-tenants-policy-activism-twitter
A French cartoonist in satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has causedmuch controversy suggesting that drowned toddler 'Alan Kurdi' would have grown up to be a sexual abuser like those immigrants allegedly involved in the assaults in Cologne. showing allot of negative stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims, showing the ignorance of some people in society these days.

• An insert at the top the cartoon contains the famous image of the three-year-old Syrian boy laying face down dead in the sand. The question at the top of the drawing “What would little Aylan have grown up to be?” is answered at the bottom by “Ass groper in Germany”
• Kurdi’s death on a beach in Turkey last year galvanised public opinion, and the widespread sympathy for the humanitarian crisis put pressure on European governments.
• But public opinion has turned in places after hundreds of claims of assaults by immigrants on women on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany. Police and the media have been accused of deliberately under-reporting the events in order not to encourage anti-immigrant sentiment.
• The cartoon was published a week after the anniversary of the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, when free speech organisations came together to proclaim the importance of protecting dissenting voices.