there is nothing more ridiculous, or perhaps more despicable, than the one who abbreviates a sentence from an article, tweet or talk, and deliberately leaves the rest in order to provoke the public and turn them against the writer or the tweeter, for malicious purposes in himself, as a suspicious lawyer and other tweeters did, and did not bother to read the entire text before judging its author or writer.
my rejection of the idea of distributing a villa to every citizen was not based on envy as these people like to spread nor out of a desire to prevent others from enjoying the state’s bounties, nor because of my hostility to the poor as these sick hearted people promoted and spread, but i demanded that for their own interest, the interest of their children and grandchildren, and the interest of the state as a whole in the long run.
i demanded in more than one article, and this is what the malicious people deliberately ignored, the trend for vertical housing, the most elegant, the least expensive, the easiest to manage, and the need for servants.
building parking lots, sewers, electricity, water, and the rest of the services for forty villas, for example, is many times more than providing them to one building.
also, parking in any residential neighborhood has become a nightmare, and the number of servants in one residential area exceeds the number of citizens who live in its homes and other matters of maintenance, cleaning, and others.
the insistence on owning a villa did not come out of anywhere, but rather because of the government’s failure to provide beautiful alternatives.
the government could build dozens like the wonderful housing project hessa al-mubarak at the ends adjacent to a number of residential areas. it can have beautiful views of the sea or public parks in sulaibikhat, doha, and others instead of villas in the arid and remote al mutla’a desert. unfortunately, the idea of vertical housing was killed with the miserable experience in the al-sawaber project.
imagine an apartment of 300 or 400 meters in a compound that contains the following services, which cannot be easily available in any other residential project, and all of its services are managed by the residents of the compound, in addition to the supermarket, hair salons, bakery, cleaning, a small security office, and the rest of the services such as swimming pools, gym, tennis and squash courts, beautiful garden, management, and even public ownership, is in the hands of the owners or residents, and they are collectively responsible for the security and maintenance of the compound.
such a project could contribute to the fusion of the components of society with each other, unlike the villa system, which pushes the residents into isolation.
the safety factor, which is becoming more and more important day by day, is more available in the compound system than in the villa system.
it is also possible to regulate the relationship between the residents of the compound in a civilized manner, through an agreement binding on all, and registered with the notary, that includes fines for violators and paid to the owners association.
as for saying that we have vast lands and a lot of money, why shouldn’t every citizen have a villa? it is a saying that lacks wisdom, and the one who says it does not know its serious societal consequences and its enormous financial cost.
note: abdel bari atwan mentioned in an interview that saddam hussein asked the lawyer abdel wadoud, hours before his execution, to call and tell him literally: ‘a nation with people like abdel bari will not be defeated.’ it seems that quoting the dead, other than the truth, has become the fashion of the era.