I guess one of the Queen’s titles should now be “Defender of radical Islam”.
such sad news
That would be like scraping our Congressional Medal of Honor...
And what about the Victoria Cross ???
Muslim Britain on the march...
I don’t give a damn what is offensive to muslims. Muslims are offensive to me.
Sounds like the UK is just going to bend over and let them take over their country. The USA will be next.
Thanks for posting, Cindy (and Robert Spencer). Great comments at link. BTTT!!!
Jeez, why don’t they just go ahead and implement sharia law, it’s gonna happen sooner or later.
Not-So-Great Britain strikes again. Their Loony Left makes ours look almost sane.
The UK is lost. Long live the PC.
Judging from the way the US has completely swooned over the gay marriage debacle, we won’t do much more than the UK when the Muslims demand their PC.
We live in a world turned upside down, where foolishness is considered wisdom.
I think the time has passed when England was a non-Moslem country. The English Establishment knows the future and is trying to ease it in ahead of time.
Hey wait!! I’m offended, are not the sun, stars and water pagan symbols...?
UNgland...Those 12 so-called law lords could use a good right cross.
First of all, this ruling has virtually nothing to do with the Queen, nor with the British Government and has absolutely no implications whatsoever for any British honour or decoration such as the Victoria Cross. None at all.
The Privy Council is, by long standing tradition and law, the Highest Court of Appeal in the Commonwealth of Nations for any Commonwealth Nation that has not explicitly decided it should no longer serve that role (Australia, for example, disallowed appeals to the Privy Council in the 1980s). When sitting as such, it does not sit as a British Court making rulings based on British law. Rather it sits as a court of appeal and bases its decisions on the laws of the Commonwealth Realm that the appeal comes from. This has meant, in recent years, for example, that the Court has approved the application of the death penalty in certain countries, even though that penalty is no longer available under British law.
In this particular case the 1976 Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago has provisions that the Courts of Trinidad and Tobago have decided outlaw the Trinity Cross - not British law, but Trinidad and Tobago law, and this ruling was initially made by the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago - and incidentally, the Judge who made that ruling is an ordained Minister of the Presbyterian Church. His ruling was based on the law as written, not on any religious basis.
The Privy Council, likewise, as to rule based on what the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago says - and that is what it has done.
There are no implications for this in British law, and if a similar case concerning a British honour somehow reached the Privy Council, they would rule differently. Because in the United Kingdom, Her Majesty the Queen is both Head of the Church of England, Defender of the Faith, and Fount of Honour. There is no incompatibility between Honours and Christianity under British Constitutional law, even if there is under Trinidad and Tobago's law.
The Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago which will replace the Trinity Cross will not be an honour from the Queen. It's a creation of the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago.
Could they just not turn it down when they are awarded it? That would be ungrateful enough, but demanding the Queen change her gifts to suit the recipient - these Muslims and Hindus could go in the dictionary as a defintion of ‘ingrate’. It is akin to a child not only expressing dissatisfaction with a present, but demanding it be changed for something else! I dare say the majority of Trinidadis who have won the award are Christian anyway.