Here We Go Again

I thought we were past this, but it's raised it's giant head of stupidity again. I was asked "Why do all the new buildings look like mosques?"
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?

A Rant I Thought of After Passing a New Bank

Last year a yobbo (a lout or a yokel - I just looked it up) wrote a letter to the editor of what passes for a newspaper in this town of a sole equine quadruped complaining that some of the new buildings (the bank I glanced at on my way home from a pleasurable Indian meal, for instance) being put up in the selfsame town had taken on the appearance of mosques. The letter-writer was complaining about this, as if it were a terrible thing.
Now, this complaint of his has two things wrong with it. First of all, he is an idiot. Okay, it has three things wrong with it. I'd have to get out a thesaurus to do justice to his idiocy, stupidity, ignorance, and headuphisassedness, not to mention out-and-out bigotry. And I mention "bigotry" as if it were a bad thing. Hmm, maybe that makes four.
A mosque is a building used for public worship by Muslims. Muslims worship the same God as the Jews and Christians - they call this divine being Allah, which means "The God." We are not at war with Muslims. Muslims are not bad people. Anyone who thinks only Muslims are terrorists have either very short memories or very, very narrow vision (or else they are stupid, ignorant idiots with their heads up their nethers). Does Northern Ireland ring a bell? Remember all the trouble those "heathens" got up to? How about the insane people who bomb women's clinics and threaten the employees? The guy who shot up the mosque? What were they? Let me think - they start with "C" and "J." Hmmmmmm.

Here are two examples of mosques (although I realize they can come in all shapes):



Now, by way of comparison, here are the local buildings in question:


Ahhh, I see. They all have domes! And here in the good old U. S. of A. We don't use domes in our architecture! Thomas Jefferson would never use one of those heathen domes for anything! Our Great Nation's Capitol would not sully their grounds with buildings with any domes on them!
Whatta moron! Okay, so he's Architecturally Ignorant. And he's a bigot.

So, let's recap:
This man is (choose four) an idiot, a very stupid person, an ignoramus, a fatuous ass, a lout, an inbred hayseed, a witless yokel, a moronic bumpkin, a ... ummm, I'm running out of steam here ... Get your own thesaurus.
This stupidity has led to incorrect deductions which make him bigoted, narrow-minded, intolerant, and prejudiced.
These buildings no more resemble mosques than they resemble Monticello or the many Catholic (which, contrary to stupid people down here, is a form of Christianity) cathedrals in Europe.
Even if they did resemble mosques, if, for instance, they had minarets and nice courtyards in the front, there would still be nothing wrong with that, except that one of them is a bank and that would be blasphemous. If that were so, Muslims everywhere should take offense, not the other way around!
And I don't want to hear another thing about it! (/me walks away muttering "Idiots! Morons!")