Nicki Minaj simply added one other facet quest to her resume.
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The rapper made an look on the United Nations Headquarters on Tuesday, Nov. 18, utilizing her time on the podium to name consideration to what she calls rising “extremism” towards Christians in Nigeria.
“I want to thank President Trump for prioritizing this difficulty and for his management on the worldwide stage in calling for pressing motion to defend Christians in Nigeria,” she mentioned in her four-minute speech. “At present, religion is beneath assault in method too many locations in Nigeria. Christians are being focused, pushed from their properties, and killed. Church buildings have been burned, households have been torn aside, and whole communities reside in worry always merely due to how they pray.”
Earlier than Minaj spoke, UN Ambassador Mike Waltz set the tone by repeating claims of Christian persecution and thanking the rapper for stepping as much as “demand motion.” Her speech kicked off a panel titled “Combating Spiritual Violence and the Killing of Christians in Nigeria.”
This speech comes on the heels of Nicki’s latest posts on X, the place she boosted Trump’s declare that Christianity in Nigeria was going through an “existential risk.”
She additionally shared a pro-MAGA video from the White Home synced to her tune, “Beez Within the Entice,” in addition to one other clip stuffed with xenophobic and transphobic messaging about Trump’s second-term achievements, which ended up costing her over 100,000 followers.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that Christians in Nigeria are being “persecuted” and killed by “radical Islamists,” threatening to invade the nation “guns-a-blazing to fully wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who’re committing these horrible atrocities,” per Rolling Stone. In September, Senator Ted Cruz launched a invoice concentrating on what he described as persecution of Nigerian Christians.
Organizations, together with the Armed Battle Location & Occasion Information Mission and the Council on International Relations, have pushed again on that narrative, saying the state of affairs is way extra difficult.
In an Al-Jazeera op-ed, Gimba Kakanda, Senior Particular Assistant to Nigeria’s president, wrote, “Each area of Nigeria has each Christians and Muslims dwelling facet by facet, and conflicts sometimes unfold alongside group or regional strains fairly than strictly non secular ones.” Bulama Bukarti, a battle researcher and human rights lawyer, instructed ABC Information the violence is “indiscriminate,” and an Imam in the identical report mentioned, “The sort of ache we’ve gone by for the previous years — this difficulty impacts each faiths.”
Regardless of these sentiments, Minaj echoed Trump and different conservatives by suggesting Christians particularly are being focused.
“That is about standing up within the face of injustice,” she mentioned. “It’s about what I’ve all the time stood for my total profession, and I’ll proceed to face for that for the remainder of my life. I’ll care if anybody anyplace is being persecuted for his or her beliefs.”
