Nicki Minaj Speaks At United Nations Panel,…
Nicki Minaj just added another facet quest to her resume.
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The rapper made an look at the United Nations Headquarters on Tuesday, Nov. 18, utilizing her time at the rostrum to call consideration to what she calls growing “extremism” toward Christians in Nigeria.
“I would like to thank President Trump for prioritizing this issue and for his leadership on the global stage in calling for urgent action to defend Christians in Nigeria,” she said in her four-minute speech. “Today, faith is under attack in way too many places in Nigeria. Christians are being targeted, driven from their homes, and killed. Churches have been burned, families have been torn apart, and entire communities live in fear constantly simply because of how they pray.”
Before Minaj spoke, UN Ambassador Mike Waltz set the tone by repeating claims of Christian persecution and thanking the rapper for stepping up to “demand action.” Her speech kicked off a panel titled “Combating Religious Violence and the eliminateing of Christians in Nigeria.”
This speech comes on the heels of Nicki’s current posts on X, where she boosted Trump’s declare that Christianity in Nigeria was going through an “existential threat.”
She also shared a pro-MAGA video from the White House synced to her tune, “Beez In the Trap,” as effectively as another 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 are committing these horrible atrocities,” per Rolling Stone. In September, Senator Ted Cruz launched a invoice focusing on what he described as persecution of Nigerian Christians.
Organizations, including the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project and the Council on Foreign Relations, have pushed back on that narrative, saying the state of affairs is much more difficult.
In an Al-Jazeera op-ed, Gimba Kakanda, Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s president, wrote, “Every region of Nigeria has both Christians and Muslims living side by side, and conflicts typically unfold along community or regional lines rather than strictly religious ones.” Bulama Bukarti, a battle researcher and human rights lawyer, told ABC News the violence is “indiscriminate,” and an Imam in the same report said, “The kind of pain we’ve gone through for the past years — this issue affects both faiths.”
Despite those sentiments, Minaj echoed Trump and other conservatives by suggesting Christians particularly are being focused.
“This is about standing up in the face of injustice,” she said. “It’s about what I’ve always stood for my entire career, and I will continue to stand for that for the rest of my life. I will care if anyone anywhere is being persecuted for their beliefs.”
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