Not long ago, Charlie Hebdo was the symbol of free speech. The offices of the French satirical magazine were attacked by the members of Al-Qaeda’s branch because of a cartoon mocking Muhammad. The world was introduced to “Je suis Charlie,” and the magazine was hailed throughout the world.

Now, it is taking incredible backlash for the world to practice the same free speech that Charlie Hebdo and the world have preached so vehemently.

Aylan Kurdi was a three-year-old Syrian refugee who made international headlines after a picture of his dead body lying face down on the beach was released. His lifeless body successfully changed the world’s view on the refugees from indifferent to our-government-must-accept-any-and-all-refugee passionate.

Then, on New Year’s Eve in Germany, perhaps the most sympathetic country to these immigrants, hundreds of women claimed that they were harassed, sexually assaulted, and robbed by the same refugees that the government has accepted.

Joining these two even together, Charlie Hebdo has released a cartoon that has caused some incredible criticism from the public. The image shows the immigrants chasing women, who look rather frightened, with the picture of Aylan on the top left corner. The caption translates into “what would become of little Aylan had he grown up? Grabber of buttocks in Germany.”

Dark? Oh yes. Depicting a dead kid as a sex offender is never going to be popular among the general population. Offensive? I am sure some people would find it furious.

But people claiming that it should not have been drawn? I completely disagree. Who are you to say that what should be drawn or not?

Let us revisit the whole “Je suis Charlie” movement for a second here. Freedom of speech is exactly what this issue is about. Charlie Hebdo is a satirical magazine. SATIRICAL. They are going to make jokes that probably aren’t going to make a lot of people feel comfortable, but that’s the same with the Onion, which made a joke about the 9/11 attack two weeks after the tragedy. I’m glad no one is barging into their office and shooting the editors and the cartoonist in the name of baby Aylan.

The hypocrisy is unbelievable. One moment the world is praising Charlie Hebdo for being so courageous and standing up to terrorism, printing and publishing whatever they wanted to, and the world shouted “Je suis Charlie.” Boy, how quickly they turned when the topic changed to whatever they disagreed with. Sure, it is completely acceptable for them to depict Muhammad as such an evil, vile character, but saying our little Aylan was growing up to be a sex offender? Blasphemous!

Some people has even gotten as far as accusing the magazine of racism. How? The cartoon is not saying that Muslims are sex offenders. It’s not lumping all the members of ethnicity and labeling them as a sex offenders because of one single incident, unlike the American media. It is a depiction of what might have happened if one single refugee might have grown up in the mind of a cynical, satirical cartoonist, based on current events. News flash, the migrants did assault those women in Germany. Not everything in the world is sunshines and rainbows, if you couldn’t tell from hundreds of refugees flooding into numerous countries because their own country is trying kill them all.

I’m not saying that you can’t be offended, or disgusted. I’m not saying that you have to support Charlie Hebdo on everything and anything they publish. That your own decision, no one else’s. But to say that they can’t publish what they want because you don’t agree with it? That is the definition of oppression of free speech. I may not be Charlie, but I sure as heck would like Charlie to be Charlie, not whatever the world want it to be.