Left or right?

Abidin wrote something interesting. (Am I allowed to put links to your page? People who don't know you wouldn't be able to read it anyway) . Below is my comments to his posting: Until today, I didn't realize Muslim Parliament still exist!. I met Dr Kalim once, and I also met the guy who was supposedly to be his successor. Can't remember his name now, but he was based in Manchester. Definitely not Dr Ghayasudin though. The history of the Muslim Parliament is interesting. Factionings were (and still is) widespread. But then again, it is a Muslim organization after all. The IHRC is good. I wish I have more time to help them out. But on the points of Muslim being left-wing or right-wing, I don't think Muslims are left-wing (if so) because of Islam. It has more to do with feeling that they are being oppressed and therefore, when trying to resist the oppression, they find themselves more in tune with the left. On some other things - business, individual liberty, etc - they may be more inclined with right wing ideas than they would like to admit. At the end, Islam is neither left nor right. It is the true middle-way. If you look for similarities between Islam and socialism, or between Islam and capitalism, you will see that elements of Islam exist in both. But I wouldn't say that Islam has elements of socialism or capitalism. It is these idealogies that have elements of Islam. When you stretch Islam to one extreme direction, you will end up with left-wing ideas. Stretch it the other way, you will end up with right wing ideas. It started in the centre, which is most natural, but circumstances made people stretch ideas to such extremes, you end up with opposing "wings". As for me, I am more inclined to the right, I think.