According to http://www.todayonline.com/articles/175572.asp,
Sultan Iskandar of Johor will be conferred an honarary doctorate by
National University of Singapore on 12 April 2007.
Well, it must be an honour for the Sultan, because NUS is afterall
one of the worlds top 20 universities.
While Im not questioning the Sultans eligibility in getting this
honour from NUS, I want to question NUSs criteria for selecting
the recipients for this honorary doctarate.
Does NUS consider the legal history of the receipient prior to the
award? Would someone who is prone to violence, and even for murder,
be even considered for such an award?
Sultan Iskandar, according to http://www.answers.com/topic/sultan-iskandar,
has not only assaulted others, he even clubbed his caddy to
death. It appears that the caddy laughed when the Sultan
missed a stroke, and there and then, he whacked the caddy to death
with a golf club
.(or so the story goes, since I was not there
.).
But due to the ability of Malaysian royalty to rise above the law,
the Sultan came out unscathed in all these incidents. Malaysian
royals, it seems, can get away scot free with murder,
literally.
So now, NUS is going to award its highest honour to the Sultan?
What does this say about the value of this honorary degree, if
NUS can find it fit to award it to someone with a chequered legal
history and blood on his hands?
And why is this big event not highlighted on the NUS homepage at
http://www.nus.edu.sg/???
I smell a
conspiracy...
(first blogged here: http://blueheeler.wordpress.com/)
