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August 10, 2012

AP: When majority fasts, social taboos force Ramadan violators underground

by Diaa Hadid
The Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Alongside hundreds of millions of Muslims observing the sunrise-to-sundown fast of Ramadan, a minority in the community goes underground each year during the holy month, sneaking sandwiches and cigarettes when no one is looking.

They include Muslims ambivalent about their faith or outright atheists, nicotine addicts too hooked to quit for 15 hours straight or those who simply don't want to deal with a day of being hungry.

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