POLITICS: Nicki Minaj shames the ‘human rights’ elite — and stands up for Christians

Nicki Minaj made her name as a raunchy rapper — but on Tuesday, the iconic superstar put do-nothing diplomats to shame when she picked up a mic at the United Nations to denounce the world’s failure to defend religious liberty.

Minaj didn’t invent the dirty rap song, but with tracks like “Anaconda” and “Stupid Hoe” she changed the rules for female artists.

She ushered in a generation of vulgar songstresses and became a liberal darling for her explicit rhymes about women’s sexual equality. 

Now she’s backing President Donald Trump’s efforts to quell the ongoing violence against Christians in Nigeria — and his White House is releasing TikToks with her raps as the backing track.

“Religious freedom means we all can sing our faith regardless of who we are,” Minaj said 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 said her Christian faith guides her — but faith is not something Americans often hear about from their celebrity activists.

Instead, these pampered scolds lecture us about oppressors and victims as they seek to create a socialist utopia on earth — and by their lights, Christians can never be victims.

That’s why most of the world’s humanitarian apparatus has remained silent on the continuing attacks on Nigeria’s Christians, who have been slaughtered and terrorized in huge numbers since 2009.

Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has been responsible for much of the violence, along with Fulani herdsmen who routinely target Christian farmers. 

Just this week, Waltz said, 25 little girls were “ripped out of their school” by gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest.

“Eighty percent of the violence against Christians worldwide” is happening in Nigeria, he said.

Roman Catholic Bishop Wilfred Anagbe has said the directed targeting of Nigeria’s Christians is “nothing short of a Jihad clothed in many names.”

Yet when President Joe Biden’s administration authorized $27 million in aid for Nigeria in 2024, he made no mention of the killings of Christians — and spoke only vaguely about the “needs of vulnerable individuals” there.

Other celebrities (ahem, Billie Eilish) complain that billionaires aren’t doing enough to fix the world.

They offer nothing but criticism, but Minaj is actually using her status to help.

With her influence and her 28 million followers, Minaj has brought vital attention to the continuing violence — in a voice loud enough to drown out the leftist NGOs pretending these massacres aren’t happening.

“She’s one of the most followed people in the world,” Waltz told Fox News. “She is reaching a whole other swath of people who may not follow these issues.”

And she’s bold enough to brush off the backlash that’s come her way for aligning with Trump.

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 trying 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 end complaining about Trump’s supposed authoritarianism and reveling in their own hysteria.

They’ve devoted countless hours to social-media freak-outs about a nonexistent genocide in Gaza while ignoring the very real 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 religious hatred, is causing unrest in Nigeria.

Few groups or nations have stood up for these Christians facing persecution for their faith — until Trump.

Western nations seem to have far more interest in upholding the rights of other cultures and faiths than their own.

Minaj — an immigrant, a “proud New Yorker,” a global sensation, and now a Trump ally — is not ashamed to stand for faith and freedom.

“Protecting Christians in Nigeria is not about taking sides or dividing people,” she said at the UN. “It is about uniting humanity.”

Those who have turned their backs on this crisis look like fools in the face of her strength.

Libby Emmons is the editor-in-chief at the Post Millennial.