European Parliament Rejects Discussion on Christian Persecution

American Thinker.com ^ | May 25, 2022 | Raymond ibrahim

[Kaslin]

Once again, a large governmental body has exposed itself as morally bankrupt if not wholly bereft of legitimacy. On May 18, 2022, the European Parliament, one of the European Union's legislative bodies, rejected a proposal to discuss the elephant in the room: the rampant persecution of Christians around the world.

The proposal came in response to the May 12 stoning and burning to death of Deborah Samuel Jacob (Yakuba), a Christian student in Nigeria murdered by Muslims for thanking Jesus for her performance in a test, and, therefore, precipitating an allegation that she had somehow "blasphemed" against Muhammad. Her murderers also made a video laughing at and mocking her burning corpse. Using that tragic incident as a catalyst, Jean-Paul Garraud, a French member of the European Parliament (MEP), proposed a debate on the persecution of Christians and Christianophobia.

With a vote of 244 against, 231 in favor, and 19 abstentions, the proposal was rejected. Considering that the European Union claims to champion human rights and religious freedom, several of those MEPs who voted for the proposal were heard booing and shouting, "Shame on you!" across the plenary floor (video here).

Those MEP groups that voted against the proposal included the vast majority of the European United Left, the Greens, the Social Democrats, and the Renew Europe group — in a word, and to use American parlance, the "left."

Responding to their hypocrisy and double-standards, Jean-Paul Garraud, the MEP who submitted the proposal, lamented that the European Commission "does not want to designate a coordinator for the fight against Christianophobia, when a coordinator of this type was created for anti-Semitism and Islamophobia."

[markomalley]

This is my shocked face...