How would you describe his place on the social/political spectrum? Is he a conservative, a liberal, or middle of the road? Back up your description by giving examples from the article.

Mr. Shata, in my view, simply doesn’t fit the conservative, liberal or middle of the road, definitions that we, people unrelated to his experience, like to use to classify people.

This man is trying to balance one of incredibly difficult situation. He is leading his people, keeping them close to their fate while understanding that they live in a completely different world than the one from which they came from. To try to live in America, pretending that the children and young members of their fate cannot see what’s in front of their eyes, and to pretend that they don’t question things, would be more than just “conservative”, it would be essentially stupid. However, to accept American culture and adapt to it, considering how different in terms of values and morals, that would be more than just “liberal”, it would be, again, stupid.

So what this man does is something that we can’t just classify. He manages to balance two worlds, as the tittle so efficiently states.

He has elevated himself from any common ground of definition in the social and political spectrum, and created a different place from himself, in which he became a leader of the Muslim fate that lives harmonically in New York City!