Nicki Minaj shames the ‘human rights’ elite — and – Latest News
Nicki Minaj made her identify as a raunchy rapper — however on Tuesday, the iconic celebrity put do-nothing diplomats to disgrace when she picked up a mic at the United Nations to denounce the world’s failure to defend non secular liberty.
Minaj didn’t invent the soiled rap music, however with tracks like “Anaconda” and “Stupid Hoe” she modified the guidelines for feminine artists.
She ushered in a technology of vulgar songstresses and grew to become a liberal darling for her express rhymes about ladies’s sexual equality.
Now she’s backing President Donald Trump’s efforts to quell the ongoing violence in opposition to Christians in Nigeria — and his White House is releasing TikToks together with her raps as the backing observe.
“Religious freedom means we all can sing our faith regardless of who we are,” Minaj mentioned Tuesday, standing alongside US Ambassador Mike Waltz.
“In Nigeria, Christians are being targeted, driven from their homes, and killed,” she declared.
“Churches have been burned. Families have been torn apart, and entire communities live in fear, constantly, simply because of how they pray.”
Minaj, who had a son in 2020, has mentioned her Christian religion guides her — however religion just isn’t one thing Americans usually hear about from their superstar activists.
Instead, these pampered scolds lecture us about oppressors and victims as they search to create a socialist utopia on earth — and by their lights, Christians can by no means be victims.
That’s why most of the world’s humanitarian equipment has remained silent on the persevering with assaults on Nigeria’s Christians, who’ve been slaughtered and terrorized in large numbers since 2009.
Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has been accountable for a lot of the violence, together with Fulani herdsmen who routinely goal Christian farmers.
Just this week, Waltz mentioned, 25 little ladies had been “ripped out of their school” by gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest.
“Eighty percent of the violence against Christians worldwide” is going on in Nigeria, he mentioned.
Roman Catholic Bishop Wilfred Anagbe has mentioned the directed focusing on of Nigeria’s Christians is “nothing short of a Jihad clothed in many names.”
Yet when President Joe Biden’s administration approved $27 million in help for Nigeria in 2024, he made no point out of the killings of Christians — and spoke solely vaguely about the “needs of vulnerable individuals” there.
Other celebrities (ahem, Billie Eilish) complain that billionaires aren’t doing enough to repair the world.
They offer nothing however criticism, however Minaj is definitely utilizing her standing to help.
With her affect and her 28 million followers, Minaj has introduced important consideration to the persevering with violence — in a voice loud enough to drown out the leftist NGOs pretending these massacres aren’t occurring.
“She’s one of the most followed people in the world,” Waltz informed Fox News. “She is reaching a whole other swath of people who may not follow these issues.”
And she’s daring enough to brush off the backlash that’s come her approach for aligning with Trump.
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In October, when Trump posted that “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria” and denounced the ongoing atrocities, Minaj responded with public thanks.
“Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude,” she wrote on X. “We live in a country where we can freely worship God . . . We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other.”
Some followers lashed out: One claimed that Trump was making an attempt to “weaponize religion so YOUR GAY FANS can be pushed into a corner and silenced.”
“Imagine hearing the Christians are being MURDERED & making it about you being gay,” Minaj retorted.
Hollywood celebrities have spent months on finish complaining about Trump’s supposed authoritarianism and reveling of their own hysteria.
They’ve devoted numerous hours to social-media freak-outs about a nonexistent genocide in Gaza whereas ignoring the very actual carnage directed at Christians.
Meanwhile, the United Nations and organizations like Amnesty International and the International Crisis Group have downplayed the atrocities, claiming “complex drivers,” not non secular hatred, is inflicting unrest in Nigeria.
Few teams or nations have stood up for these Christians going through persecution for his or her religion — till Trump.
Western nations appear to have far more curiosity in upholding the rights of different cultures and faiths than their own.
Minaj — an immigrant, a “proud New Yorker,” a world sensation, and now a Trump ally — just isn’t ashamed to stand for religion and freedom.
“Protecting Christians in Nigeria is not about taking sides or dividing people,” she mentioned at the UN. “It is about uniting humanity.”
Those who’ve turned their backs on this disaster seem like fools in the face of her power.
Libby Emmons is the editor-in-chief at the Post Millennial.
