Queen Rania of Jordan Counters Charlie Hebdo’s Depiction Of A Three-Year-Old Migrant Casualty As A Sexual Molester

Queen Rania of Jordan slammed the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's depiction of a young Syrian refugee's future as a sexual molester with a more positive cartoon posted on her personal Twitter account last Jan. 16.

The toddler identified as Aylan Kurdi who was drowned along with his older brother Galip and their mother Rihan was found face down at a beach in Turkey according to BBC News. They were reportedly heading to Greece to seek for refuge when their boats sank down leaving at least 12 people dead by drowning.

The three-year-old Kurdi's picture washed ashore has attracted attention from international media, blaming the migration crisis for the thousands of lost lives while reaching their destination. Meanwhile, the French magazine who featured Kurdi in a series of cartoons mocking his and his fellow migrants' plight received backlash over racism allegations as reported by the news website.

Among these was a version of Kurdi's dead body at a beach like how he was originally found by rescuers with a McDonald's advertisement labeled, "So close."

Despite growing criticisms over the seemingly indifferent satirical drawings, Charlie Hebdo did not stop featuring Kurdi as Independent News wrote that the maagazine has also posted a cartoon of him in an animal-like figure chasing a woman captioned, "What would little Aylan become if he'd grown up? ...Someone who gropes asses in Germany."

The Queen of Jordan wittily made a comeback by equally posting a cartoon of Kurdi that she revealed to have worked with a Jordanian cartoonist Osama Hajjaj depicting the future of the young Kurdi as a productive member of the society.

"What would little Aylan have grown up to be?" echoes Queen Rania in her social media account. "Aylan could've been a doctor, a teacher, a loving parent."

Previously, the Queen Rania defended the magazine against terrorism last year after 12 of its journalists were shot by alleged Islam extremists. She and her husband King Abdullah II of Jordan were among the many world leaders who rallied for peace after the successive attacks to Paris.

Queen Rania condemned the terrorists in her Facebook post stating, "...what offends me more, much more, are the actions of the criminals who, this week, dared to use Islam to justify the cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians. This is not about Islam or being offended by the Charlie Hebdo magazine. This is about a handful of extremists who wanted to slaughter people for any reason and at any cost."

The solidarity that people in the social media expressed for Charlie Hebdo magazine turned upside down with its negative presentation of Syrian refugees especially for its alleged mockery over the three-year-old Aylan Kurdi for several months.