I wrote Masjid Marauders in response to the issues around culture, religion and nationality that are often at odds in mosques in the West. Many of us, myself included, are culturally American (or Western). We are Muslim yes but we are not culturally Arab or Pakistani and those who are not culturally Western should not dictate the Islamic narrative in Western countries. We can work together of course but we are not 2nd class citizens in our own countries that others immigrated to. Thus Masjid Marauders.