The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is once again provoking debate about freedom of speech after publishing satirical cartoons playing off of the now famous photo of drowned Syrian three-year-old Alan Kurdi.

In one cartoon, the child is depicted under a caption that says: "So close to his goal…" The image also shows a billboard featuring a character who resembles Ronald McDonald, that reads: "Two children's menus for the price of one."

All those who said " <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeSuisCharlie?src=hash">#JeSuisCharlie</a>" check this out, the ultimate disrespect <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/charliehebdo?src=hash">#charliehebdo</a> <a href="http://t.co/IflIkunidY">pic.twitter.com/IflIkunidY</a> —@rudol9h

Another cartoon includes a caption that says: "Proof that Europe is Christian. Christians walk on water...Muslim kids sink."

Charlie Hebdo: “The proof that Europe is Christian: Christians walk on waters…Muslim kids sink.” <a href="http://t.co/6HYgu5Puss">pic.twitter.com/6HYgu5Puss</a> —@thekarami

The cartoons are drawing a lot of criticism online:

For all those that danced and pranced around chanting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeSuisCharlie?src=hash">#JeSuisCharlie</a> , I'm glad that paper finally showed it's true colors...disgusting. —@eshymonk

Hearing Charlie Hebdo mocked the death of Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi for the 2nd time. Those satirists sure do punch up and aim at the powerful —@Remroum

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CharlieHebdo?src=hash">#CharlieHebdo</a> magazine has proven yet again exactly what it is with its latest cartoons on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Refugeecrisis?src=hash">#Refugeecrisis</a> - pure trash incited hatred —@SajdaMughal

Charlie Hebdo is a purely racist, xenophobic and ideologically bankrupt publication that represents the moral decay of France. —@herbert_donald

Others have come to the magazine's defence, claiming Charlie Hebdo is trying to satirize Europe's response to the plight of refugees.

I don't think the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CharlieHebdo?src=hash">#CharlieHebdo</a> cartoon of Kurdi are mocking the dead child. They are highlighting ironies in a nuanced, subtle, way <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/kurdi?src=hash">#kurdi</a> —@noorpamiri

Extraordinary that people can read these cartoons and conclude that Aylan is the butt of the joke. Truly. <a href="http://t.co/vxjU658qBN">http://t.co/vxjU658qBN</a> —@michaeldweiss

In January, the slogan "Je suis Charlie," became a popular rallying cry for supporters of the magazine — and of freedom of expression — after extremists, claiming affiliation with al-Qaeda in Yemen, carried out a massacre at the magazine's Paris offices.

In the following days brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi were pursued and eventually killed by French police. A third gunman — Amedy Coulibaly — was followed to a kosher grocery store where he murdered four more hostages and a police officer, before also being killed by police.