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Photo credit:Queen Rania of Jordan at Davos by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, Licensed under Creative Commons.

When France’s Charlie Hebdo published a cartoon portraying two pig-like men chasing two terrified women with the upper left corner of the image with incscription referring to Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea last year, the Queen of Jordan posted on Twitter an otherwise very positive thought about the boy.

Aylan could've been a doctor, a teacher, a loving parent… Thanks @osamacartoons for sketching my thoughts pic.twitter.com/M2z4Z3mJe0

— Rania Al Abdullah (@QueenRania) January 15, 2016

Queen Rania chose a different approach to express her rejection of the cartoon and its message.

On Friday, she posted her own sketch on Twitter, using the iconic image of the drowned toddler and drawings of him as a child happily playing, as a student and as doctor.

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First Published         17 Jan , 2016      9:24 am      (UTC/GMT -8 HRS)       with 446 views.

THIS ARTICLE IS RELATED TO    Charlie Hebdo, Jordan, Middle East, Queen Rania, racism