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Fasting is one of the five pillars1 of Islam. Fasting is called “sawm” in the Qur'an, which literally means "to abstain".

Perception in the West is that “Islam” is against the “Western” world, and these views have been further intensified after the incidents following September 11. In the Muslim world, there is deep frustration over the “West’ and west is perceived as enemy of Islam based on long historical experiences of crusades, invasions, colonialism, support for Orientalist, fall of Caliphate in Turkey, Palestinian occupation, Gulf wars, invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan etc. Both of these points of views have to be debated ..