Now, are we talking left/right relative to the USA or not?
No. You're deeply confused eh? But at least you're starting to learn that this is a complicated issue, not a simple binary one.
The dictionary says ..
No, it doesn't. Do you know what a 'dictionary' is?
That's not a dictionary.
Do you think Muslims are liberal?
In america, yes. We can see a lot of "liberals" aligning themselves with muslims in america and in europe the very same thing is happening, where parties opposed to islamisation are considered far-right and parties inviting them are considered anywhere between slightly left of center to far left.
"The right is always the party sector associated with the interests of the upper or dominant classes, the left the sector expressive of the lower economic or social classes, and the centre that of the middle classes. Historically this criterion seems acceptable. The conservative right has defended entrenched prerogatives, privileges and powers; the left has attacked them. The right has been more favorable to the aristocratic position, to the hierarchy of birth or of wealth; the left has fought for the equalization of advantage or of opportunity, for the claims of the less advantaged. Defense and attack have met, under democratic conditions, not in the name of class but in the name of principle; but the opposing principles have broadly corresponded to the interests of the different classes.[13]"
The question again is, do we talk left/right relative to america or not?
The question again is, do we talk left/right relative to america or not?
No. You're deeply confused eh? But at least you're starting to learn that this is a complicated issue, not a simple binary one.
In america, yes.
Just to be sure I am hearing you correctly, you think Muslims are liberal?
"while the parties that were called "Left" now sat on the right side. The use of the words Left and Right spread from France to other countries and came to be applied to a large number of political parties worldwide, which often differed in their political beliefs."
"Usage in Western Europe:
In the 2001 book The Government and Politics of France, Andrew Knapp and Vincent Wright say that the main factor dividing the left and right wings in Western Europe is class. The Left seeks social justice through redistributive social and economic policies, while the Right defends private property and capitalism. The nature of the conflict depends on existing social and political cleavages and on the level of economic development."
"Contemporary usage in the United States
The terms left-wing and right-wing are widely used in the United States, but as on the global level there is no firm consensus about their meaning. The only aspect that is generally agreed upon is that they are the defining opposites of the United States political spectrum. Left and right in the U.S. are generally associated with liberal and conservative respectively, although the meanings of the two sets of terms do not entirely coincide
The contemporary Left in the United States is usually understood as a category that includes New Deal social-liberals (in contrast to traditions of social democracy more common to Western Europe), Rawlsian liberals and civil libertarians, who are often identified with the Democratic Party. In general, the term left-wing is understood to imply a commitment to egalitarianism, support for social policies that appeal to the working class and multiculturalism. The contemporary center-left usually defines itself as promoting government regulation of business, commerce and industry; protection of fundamental rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion (separation of church and state); and government intervention on behalf of racial, ethnic and sexual minorities and the working class.[49]"
"Relevance of the terms today [...] His survey of American legislative caucuses showed scores by American Republicans and Democrats were similar to the Canadian Right and liberals, with a 44% correlation between party affiliation and score.[51]"
The dictionary says in one paragraph that the democrats are left and in another that both republicans and democrats are right when compared to other countries. It says that there is no global conensus on left and right and that left and right are used differently in europe and that left and right had historical different meanings.
At another paragraph it states that everything that wants to change power structures is left and everything that wants to preserve them is right. As such I would argue that based on that definition a muslim party in the USA would be left but a muslim party in Saudi Arabia would be right.
Now, are we talking left/right relative to the USA or not?