JeSuisCharlie now? Social media outrage at cartoon mocking death of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi

A wave of indignation has swept across social media after Charlie Hebdo mocked the drowning of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi in a perilous journey across the Mediterranean. The poster showed Jesus walking on water with the dead Muslim boy next to him.

The first page of the new cartoon, dubbed ‘Welcome, migrants’ features a gruesome picture of the drowned three-year-old lying face down on the beach. “So Close to the Goal,” the caption reads in French. (YOU MAY FIND LINKED CONTENT OFFENSIVE, READER DISCRETION ADVISED).

Near the body is a billboard advertising the famous 2-for-1 McDonald’s Happy Meal with a smiling face of the restaurant chain’s clown mascot. “Two children’s menus for the price of one,” it says .... http://www.rt.com