i returned home a few days ago through the airports of gulf cities. i felt a constriction as i wandered around the facilities of some of them, not because of their badness, but because the remaining years of my life will not allow me to see similar splendor, beauty, and comfort in my country, especially since they are not extraordinary achievements but merely stone buildings, materials, and decoration, which means it is only a matter of money. we failed shamefully.
the homeland of daylight, beauty, and creativity has become the homeland of fear, the homeland of darkness, the homeland of backwardness and hesitation in decision-making, the homeland of overt and hidden thefts, the homeland of the educated person’s fear of the power of the half-educated and the fear of the two of them from the voice, power, and influence of a deputy who can barely read or write a line.
upon my arrival at our international airport, the necessity called for me to respond to the call of nature, and to visit the bathrooms in the basement. i almost cried with grief over the miserable situation and the crippling situation which has not changed over thirty years but to the contrary even got worse, so i took a few pictures, sent them as tweets, and hundreds responded to them, and it was over.
the next day, and in an act that was considered a title of insignificance and absurdity, an mp who is a member of the ‘negative phenomena committee’ probably lost his temper, enraged and threatened the municipal minister to move and remove the ‘one love’ ad placed at the entrance of an american restaurant, under the pretext that it promotes homosexuality.
as was expected, the minister’s apparatus, men, and equipment responded to the request, which was absurd and incorrect in the first place, and removed the advertisement within minutes, and the representative tweeted the advertisement had been removed, and on top of that, a citation was issued to the restaurant owners.
all of this happened, because a citizen, often ignorant of the meaning of the sign that was removed, filmed a video claiming that it bore the slogan of homosexuality.
the fact that no one cared to pay attention to is that the words “one love” originally refer to the introduction to a famous american song by the jamaican singer “bob marley”, which he sang almost half a century ago, and the american restaurant company, “the accused”, has launched a promotional advertising campaign for its restaurants bearing this slogan since 2005.
the whole thing has nothing to do with homosexuality at all but is the love of one type of chicken that the restaurant offers.
the advertisement was removed and the situation in the airport bathrooms remained the same because no one cares about meaningful changes, but rather about meaningless and silly calls.
it also seems that i made a mistake in sending pictures of the devastation in the bathrooms without pointing to them with an arrow bearing the same colors as the rainbow.
the backwardness that we are experiencing is only part of the effects of the conflict between the modern civil state, to which all the national forces contributed at the beginning of the sixties in establishing it, and enshrining it in the state’s constitution, and the forces of darkness represented by tribalism, which wants to maintain its strength, and above that the seizure of the state’s capabilities for its own benefit.
in the end, victory will be for the civilized state, as this is the outcome and the natural path for the progress and development of any country, but not before paying a very high price before this is achieved.