Millatism
© Prakash J. Mascarenhas.
Islam teaches that those who profess it constitute one single nation - the Islamic Millat. Other religions and sects are also regarded as Millats.
Islam absolutely identifies Religion and ethnicity. It teaches its adherents that they are not part of the same ethnic group from which they originated, at the time of their conversion to Islam, but that they constitute a separate nation.
The Caliphs, the supreme religioso-political governor of the Muslim Millat, forced the organization of the different Christian sects in the territories he ruled to conform to the Millat principle.
Millatism is the true origin of the British policy of divide-and-rule.
At the time of British India's independence from England, the Muslims, under the leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, claimed that because they were Muslims they constituted a distinct and separate nation and demanded the erection of a state all for themselves: thus Pakistan was carved out of British India. The principle under which Pakistan was established is called Jinnahism.
Is there any difference between Jinnahism and Millatism?
Again, in the western parts of Serbia, the Muslim Serbs, claiming to be the mythical nation of the 'Bosniacs,' (Bosnia is the only European country named, not for a people but for a river, the Bosna) demanded from Tito, the Communist dictator of Yugoslavia, that they be given their own 'ethnic' province. To placate them, Tito carved out the province of Bosnia. However, even so, the Muslims still formed only thirty percent of the province's population.
When the Communist regime of Yugoslavia collapsed, and Slovenia and Croatia seceded, Bosnia too declared itself independent. The Serb Orthodox naturally reacted, and fought against this treason and secession.
Can anyone show how me how Bosniacism is different from Jinnahism and Millatism?
The Muslims in England, France, the USA, etc., also claim to be separate nations, and demand the right to constitute their own states and governments, eg. the Muslim 'Parliament' of England. Can anyone show me that this is any different from the Muslim behaviour in India or Serbia?