In front of the fireplace in their Canton home, the Ahmed family has four shoeboxes, one for each of their kids, packed with small toys like "Star Wars" figures and Hot Wheels. They call them Ramadan boxes, an idea the parents came up with after noticing Christmas stockings.

And while such boxes aren't mentioned in the Quran or in the stories about Islam's prophet, they are a unique way that Muslims in the U.S. are practicing their faith as the try to pass on warm Ramadan memories to their children. Like Jews before them, Muslims are now wrestling with maintaining traditions in a Christian-majority society.