ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Abdullah Kurdi, the father of Alan Kurdi has expressed outrage at a cartoon drawing of his son by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, calling the picture “inhuman and immoral,”
“Today I am more sad than the day I lost (Alan) and my family,” said Abdullah Kurdi in a statement.
The magazine ran a drawing of the 3-year-old boy’s lifeless body on the beach with the question: "What would little Alan have grown up to be?"
Alan’s father likened Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon to the act of “terrorists and war criminals” who kill innocent civilians and displace people from their homes in Syria.
“This revealed the true face of this publication and showed that it does not have any regards for the suffering and feelings of human beings,” reads his statement.
The following cartoon featured two men chasing two women who they were sexually assaulting followed with the remark that little Alan would likely have grown up to be "an ass groper in Germany."
The cartoon was a response to the recent spate of sexual assaults against women in the German city of Cologne on New Years Eve by refugees who had arrived from the Middle East and North Africa.
“Today I am more sad than the day I lost (Alan) and my family,” said Abdullah Kurdi in a statement.
The magazine ran a drawing of the 3-year-old boy’s lifeless body on the beach with the question: "What would little Alan have grown up to be?"
Alan’s father likened Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon to the act of “terrorists and war criminals” who kill innocent civilians and displace people from their homes in Syria.
“This revealed the true face of this publication and showed that it does not have any regards for the suffering and feelings of human beings,” reads his statement.
The following cartoon featured two men chasing two women who they were sexually assaulting followed with the remark that little Alan would likely have grown up to be "an ass groper in Germany."
The cartoon was a response to the recent spate of sexual assaults against women in the German city of Cologne on New Years Eve by refugees who had arrived from the Middle East and North Africa.
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