Well, there is actually a good answer to that, and it's "Because y'all have mosques on the brain!" You go for decades without seeing a mosque, suddenly parts of the world where these buildings are prevalent are relentlessly in the news, and when you drive down the street, you see something new that doesn't look like a box with a storefront so you immediately connect it with these other "foreign" objects.
Here's a quiz for y'all. Mosque or Not-Mosque?
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Answers are below. How'd you do?

1 comment:
Pish. Byzantine, neo-classical, Maghrebi - it's all foreign, right?
I'd say this is one of those famous 'teachable moments'.
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