“If Muslims do not unite, the situation will get worse and Salman Rushdie may get a seat in the British parliament.” United in Hate: Liberals and Militant Islam – Jamie Glazovīritain’s knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie contributes to insulting Islam and may lead to terrorism, a Pakistani minister has said.Apostasy: “Whoever changes his (Islamic) religion, kill him”.
Fjordman: On the Illusion of a Moderate Islam. The Principle of Abrogation in the Quran. We can hardly wait for the Queen’s Birthday honours list. However, the show-stopper was the decision to add a knighthood to Prince Philip’s long list of titles. The 2015 Australia Day honours may be remembered for many reasons. The prime minister could start handing out honorary knighthoods or damehoods to foreign leaders left, right and centre. If Prince Philip’s was an honorary appointment – and this fact was omitted from the list released on Australia Day – it highlights that while only four Australians can receive knighthoods or damehoods, there is no limit on the number of appointments that the prime minister could make to people who are not Australian citizens. If Prince Philip’s award was not an honorary appointment, it has taken the award away from an Australian. However, this limitation of four per year does not include “honorary” knights and dames. Why does it matter whether Prince Philip’s award was “honorary” or not? Only four knights and dames can be appointed each year. The distinction of “honorary” knights and dames This raises the question of whether Prince Philip’s award should be viewed solely as “honorary”. There is no mention that Prince Philip’s award is an honorary appointment. An alternative view is that while this may be the sense of the clause, it is not mandatory: that is, non-citizens may also be awarded the “ordinary” knighthood or damehood. On one reading of the clauses, non-citizens can only be given honorary knighthoods. What is unclear from the wording of these clauses is whether non-Australian citizens can only be given honorary knighthoods. Notwithstanding subsection (1), a distinguished person who is not an Australian citizen may be appointed as an honorary Knight or Dame … where it is desirable that the person be honoured by Australia. It qualifies the previous clause by stating that: The other important clause is 11A(2), which deals with non-citizens. Clause 11A(1) states that:Īppointments as Knights or Dames, or honorary Knights or Dames, in the General Division shall be made for extraordinary and pre-eminent achievement and merit in service to Australia or to humanity at large. There are also important clauses that relate specifically to appointing knights and dames. In short, it establishes two categories of eligibility. It also allows non-citizens to be “appointed to the Order as honorary members”. To understand the appointment process it is necessary to have a close look at the clauses in the current Letters Patent.Ĭlause 11 of the Letters Patent states that:Īustralian citizens … are eligible to be appointed to the Order. … with the approval of the Sovereign on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, by Instrument signed by the Governor-General. Abbott said he “consulted with the chairman of the Council for the Order of Australia and … with the Governor-General”. Knights and dames are essentially “captain’s picks” of the prime minister. 
Abbott simply instructed the Queen to amend the letters patent. This is how knighthoods and damehoods were re-established without the involvement of parliament. Letters Patent are unique in that the document is approved without reference to parliament. The Order of Australia – our system for recognising the achievements of outstanding Australians – was established by Letters Patent in 1975. Some not-so-recent examples are the letters patent signed by the monarch establishing each of the Australian colonies during the 1800s. One recent example is the appointment of former High Court judge Dyson Heydon as the royal commissioner to investigate alleged corruption within trade unions. When a royal commission is established, the appointment of the royal commissioner is done so by Letters Patent.
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