Ever since the deadly attack on their office last year the world has given Charlie Hebdo some serious leeway. They did kind of earn it to be fair, and in this overly PC age many see their ‘no holds barred’ approach as refreshing.

Not that everyone feels that way, evident from the criticism they faced regarding their response to the drowned Syrian infant (HERE) and the Paris attacks (HERE). Now they have really stuck to their guns with their latest cartoon, a critique of the recent spate of sexual assaults in Germany.

Here’s Al Jazeera:

“What would have little Aylan grown up to be? A groper in Germany” reads the caption to this cartoon…

The cartoon was an attempt at mocking accusations that many assailants of sexual abuse in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve were refugees, including Syrians.

As you would imagine this incurred the wrath of many Twitter users:

We know they like to push the boundaries, and the satire they employ often comes across as crass if one fails to look a little deeper, but it’s clear their latest cartoon has rubbed many the wrong way.

Then again for a magazine that thrives on controversy perhaps that is exactly what they are after…

[source:aljazeera]