Trump must extend defense of religious freedom beyond Nigeria

It started as a message to Nigerian officials. As home to nearly 100 million Christians, Nigeria has the world’s sixth-largest Christian population. But, for too long, the United States has stood aside as successive Nigerian administrations turned their guns on the country’s Christians to starve, murder, or drive them away; the Biafra genocide alone killed perhaps two million. Former President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, removed Nigeria from the religious freedom watch list without explanation, often blaming the regime’s slaughter of Christians on migration due to climate change.

Rather than sanction then-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Biden invited him to watch a World Cup game with him. The problem neither Biden nor Blinken recognized, however, is that climate change does not charter buses for Fulani militiamen to travel hundreds of miles to invade Christian villages.

First, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and then President Donald Trump himself reversed Biden and Blinken’s immoral policy to stand up for religious freedom. Now, Secretary of State

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