Edited sentence: Being singled in this manner has resulted in many people feeling that no matter how hard they tried to assimilate into Western society, they would always be seen as separate and different.Cultural Muslims generally do not fast; however, they are likely to change the timings of their morning and/or evening meals during this month.During the month of Ramadan, religious Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.However, measures such as no-fly lists based on common Muslim names have led to many such people being classified as Muslim and discriminated against regardless of their personal religious beliefs.Prior to 9-11 and the heightened fear of terrorism that it created, less observant Muslims living in North America and Europe may well have been more likely to identify with their host countries than with any Muslim community.Ramadan meal timings.The reasons may be social (in order to dine with religious members of one's family who are fasting), or purely practical (in many Muslim countries, food cannot be easily purchased during the time of fasting).This feeling of alienation has given rise to the non-religious classification of cultural Muslim