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Mehdi Hasan

Commentators

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Position estimated from: Zeteo and earlier MSNBC: progressive; critical of Israel's Gaza war and U.S. support for it; practising Muslim who supports secular pluralism; pro-immigration.

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Political compass placement

Map dimensionScore (0–100)PositionReading
Economic
Collective / planned ↔ Market
45near the center
Social
Progressive ↔ Traditional
24toward progressive
Authority
Libertarian ↔ Authoritarian
22toward libertarian
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
25toward cosmopolitan
Foreign policy
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
41near the center
All nine underlying dimensions
DimensionScoreReading
Economic ownership
Collective ownership ↔ Private ownership
50near the center
Civil liberties
Civil liberty ↔ State restrictions
35toward civil liberty
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
25toward cosmopolitan
Social and cultural values
Progressive ↔ Traditionalist
25toward progressive
Political governance
Democratic ↔ Autocratic
10strongly toward democratic
Equality and hierarchy
Egalitarian ↔ Hierarchical
25toward egalitarian
Economic management
Free market ↔ State planning
63near the center
Military intervention
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
41near the center
Religion and government
Secular state ↔ Religious authority
22toward secular state

These positions are estimates on the Atlas’s nine-dimension scale, produced by running the available evidence through the same questions and scoring used for test-takers. They are interpretations for comparison, not objective measurements. How scores are made.

Key positions

StatementPositionBasis
Opposition parties should be free to compete in elections.Strongly agreesestimated
Religious doctrine should take precedence over civil law when they conflict.Strongly disagreesestimated
People should be free to criticize the government without fear of legal punishment.Strongly agreesestimated
Preserving a historic national majority is a legitimate immigration objective.Strongly disagreesestimated
The means of production should ultimately be owned collectively.Strongly disagreesestimated
Society works best when established social hierarchies are respected.Strongly disagreesestimated
Same-sex couples should have the same right to marry as opposite-sex couples.Strongly agreesestimated
Central economic planning is preferable to decentralized market decisions.Disagreesestimated
Military intervention abroad can be justified to stop mass atrocities.Agreesfrom their record
Traditional elites have a legitimate special role in public life.Strongly disagreesestimated

Closest ideologies

Social Democracy96% similar positionSocial Liberalism95% similar positionModern Liberalism93% similar positionParticipatory Democracy93% similar positionProgressive Liberalism91% similar position

Similar and contrasting figures

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Sources

Profile last reviewed October 11, 2026.