[NYer]

They have been all through the South, where I live, buying up little rural black churches where the congregation has died out and constructing mosques on these spots - even though there are vritually no Muslims for miles and miles. It’s simply advance colonization.

Wow ... I had NO idea! Are these mosques equipped with minarets?

[livius]

Not generally, although some of them have a little tiny minaret-type tower. But they’re basically fairly small, just the original little white clapboard church building without the cross. Quite weird when you’re driving through some rural area where there is probably not even a Pakistani convenience store clerk and you see a sign indicating the (fill in Arabic name of your choice) mosque or Islamic center.