He does claim to be left but in this country that is as good as saying ''I'm not racist'' because that is what the right is falsely boxed up as these days. His morals and actions show a true balanced stance. To have that stance makes this man a hero considering where he was raised and how he has been treat, could easily have went culturally extremist.
Any thriving country needs elements of true left and elements of true right socially and economically in order to productively function long term, regardless of being a true dictatorship or democracy. What this mans life and country events describe is a blatant cultural shift to a far left mine field of ''not offending minority's'' for what I can only assume is intentional or opportunist political gain/preservation. If it shifts hard enough as it did the economy also suffers. However leaving the EU for example was a much needed right swing back toward central. The free movement of people may be the hippy love thing to do but it does not help a country's economy or social structure thus will suffer long term.
The left elements to this is that yes, mixed religious or minority's are more than welcome in a regulated fashion. The right side is that no, you can not disrespect the country's laws/traditions or else get the fuck out, now. We have swept the right under the carpet and many people have died or had life long trauma as a result. Ignore the right and the left gets even more left, the old left becomes the new right and is not strong enough to keep the new left in check. The same happens if you go right and forget the left.. economic dictatorship. We have that in bundles too.
The ideology of what true left and right is gone, although I personally have no anchored political stance because life is not that static and the scale keeps changing as a political play. The bench mark for true left and true right is as simple as this. Left is about helping the weak while right is about helping the strong BUT you need both dynamically. Anything more left or more right of that will create imbalance. ''lets tax all big corps by 40% and give it too the poor''.. extreme left, big business leaves, we earn less or pay more. ''Let's destroy free health care while people have little alternative'' .. extreme right, people die or live in pain.
Politicians (not all) are payed by crooked cleaver people. For example a far left move to ''open the borders'' is easily an agenda that can be capitalized on by far right for cheap foreign labor and short term income gains. It may even be the seed agenda of the far right but planted as a ''left'' move to ''save the world''. Unfortunately a good balanced party who dynamically addresses situations does not exist (at-least with a shot at winning). People are voting for the same left or right politics time and time again and our solutions to problems always wind up being left or right in nature (with lasting effects set in by law). Because of that we have to wait for situations like hundreds of children being raped or people dying in their own homes from hypothermia before anything gets done.. and it gets done very slowly.
Not sure if I had a over all point to make here, maybe just a rant. Well, maybe a decent true middle party will eventually come from all this extremity.. I could anchor to that.