More than 1000 refugees welcomed in Dortmund,Septemebr 6. Demotix/Felix Huesmann. All rights reserved.Perhaps it is only the most racist, right-wing groups who would refuse to share the pictures of Aylan Kurdi or not get moved by it to support the refugees' bid to enter Europe.
However, here is one immediate contrast. Radical Kurdish sites declare that they will not be sharing the pictures of Aylan Kurdi. One story is titled, 'Why I refuse to share Aylan Kurdi's picture'. Another says: "If wars continue in the ‘Middle East,’ if exploitation, repression, torture, coercion continue - what will a few European countries accepting refugees’ change? Something maybe, but not much."
And then it goes on to describe the dead child not as a victim, whom Europe should have allowed free entry, but as "a boy who might have grown up to be a hero" in the Kurdish struggle.
