*It definitely increases shame, and guilt in occidentals. No one knows why and how but there is a general consensus that the Occident has somehow meddled in Middle East, making things worst.Many Occidentals feel it is exclusively the Occident's fault for all misdeeds in the Orient, and for that matter in the whole world. That could not be true. Not entirely.
*There are migrants and refugees. Whichever the kid was, he was definitely a living human being, a person with all the rights a man should have. Showing him in that context diminishes him, and his kin, dehumanizing them. Makes them all pitiful, frail, puppets. Takes away the dignity of someone who could have had the same potential of any other kid in the ”free” world. It shows a weak kid. Someone who was not strong enough to finish a race, let alone win anything(since there was nothing to gain_meaning there is no prize)
*The sign talks about a decadent society, only concerned with short term gains, disregarding all forms of life. A society that doesn't care about anyone, much less this dead kid. And it is that same society's big mouth(press) that starts screaming about a one dead kid, when the Arab world is plagued with thousands upon thousands of people dying, many, children, dying drowned in ditches. It's somewhat hypocrite to point to one victim, where there are millions. Of course this kid is special. He died for a purpose: Occident(small, but what a big heart). The sign talks about the ignorance of this kid, for he did not know that his goal was a mirage.
This image is offensive for all people looking at it. Both Muslims and Christians, both Arabs and Occidentals. It tells the first that they are foolish and the latter that they are fake.
Talk about killing two birds with one stone!
*There is a certain degree of arrogance in both images, in that Occidentals(in the kid image) and Jesus(in the other) are always in a privileged spot. In the image economy, one is above the other, one lives the other dies. Even if both are being insulted, ones are less. Even if it's mockery, it's like those blockbusters where all people die, but black, yellow, red, whatever people, die first. Like they are worth less. Is this because most people watching, the targeted viewers, are white-christian-occidentals? or rather, Why are these people the target? I any case, the composition suggests the cartoons are addressed to christian-occidentals. This would mean, Muslims should not feel offended since they are not the target here. So they are just collateral damage. Sad irony.
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