As the corpse of Deborah Samuel lay charred and bruised beyond all recognition after being slaughtered by 200 Muslim men, another mob was preparing to add a second insult to the slain Christian.
With a blow almost as gruesome as the ones that send blood bursting from her battered and mutilated body, Members of the European Parliament voted against debating her plight and the plight of all Christians who are persecuted in the world. When French MEP Jean Paul Garraud introduced the motion to discuss the need to help people like Deborah, enough MEPs voted down the motion that it was rejected. All that Garraud wanted was to discuss the fact that the EU has appointed people to protect Jewish religious freedom and Islamic religious freedom, but not that of Christians, even though Christians are by far the most persecuted peoples in the world.
To Ireland’s shame, its ruling Green Party had two MEPs who were among those who decided that Deborah Samuel’s horrific suffering was not enough to warrant even a debate. It did not matter that there were 200 men involved in her lynching, it did not matter that she was mutilated with stones, it did not matter that she was set on fire. For what? For asking why her college’s Whatsapp was being bombarded with Islamic apologetics.
Ciaran Cuffe and Grace O’Sullivan.
The names of the two Irish MEPs who were not only unmoved by Deborah Samuel’s suffering a few weeks ago, but who were doubly unmoved when 50 Catholics, many of them women and children were shot dead in cold blood by terrorists during Pentecost Mass this past weekend. Despite the obscene footage of one of the worst terror atrocities of the year, neither Cuffe nor O’Sullivan was adequately bothered with these deaths to vote to debate their occurrence.
On this occasion, these two individuals thankfully did not have their way and the vote was passed.
The motion was introduced by Polish MEP Kosma Złotowski.
He stated:
Madam President, I would like to thank the rapporteur for his excellent work. Just two years ago, 340 million Christians lived in areas where they could be persecuted. Today, it is 360 million. This is not because people, Christians, are moving to areas where they are persecuted. Last year, 5 900 Christians were killed precisely because they follow the Christian religion. That is 20% more than a year ago. This is a serious problem.
And yesterday, there was a massacre. On Sunday, at least 50 people were murdered during a church service. This is reason enough for this subject to be dealt with in a debate in the European Parliament. This is why the ECR Group is requesting such a debate.
If you want to read the names of those who voted against this motion you can do so here or on the photo below.
Cuffe then actually had the gall to tweet that he was upset by the tragedy in Nigeria.
Despite the Green Party’s efforts to make sure that the persecution of Christians remains an ignored issue, the European Parliament did have the discussion today.
Who was it that led the way for these people?
Poland. The country so often maligned by the Irish government for being too Catholic and too everything else that the Green Party abhors.
May the martyrs of Nigerian rest in peace, even if that offends the Green Party.