[stuartcr]

That’s probably because it’s not a western country. Have you googled the cities much or visited, where the majority of people live? I think when people have been in areas for long, long times, in areas where the common man is not economically well-off and land is at a premium, you’ll find that lots of people live in those kinds of places.

[blackdog]

It seems the concept of open space and the indivdual's property run at odds to personal safety in Islam. Without walls or armed guards, even in the best of neighborhoods or worst of neighborhoods a constant is the walled off fortrace. In urban poorer areas it's multi-unit block housing, meaning the whole city block is a continuous walled structure, and in elite areas it's single home compounds even in elite city government/military employee centers.

It just doesn't say a lot of what they think of their brothers when the lights go out, prayers are over, and nobody is watching.