Fasting in Alaska

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Fasting in Alaska will 9 hour more than others

Map Alaska

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Ramadan traditionally starts the morning after the naked-eye sighting of the new moon, which sufficed in earlier centuries but is breaking down because of modern communications. If Muslims in Britain or France can't see the new moon because of clouds, they can simply telephone or tweet relatives in Pakistan, Bangladesh or North Africa to see if Ramadan has started there and follow suit if it has.

the traditional start of Ramadan

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How

caused by fasting for too long and the weather is too hot a lot of children who passed out at school and many older people become sick

When

Fasting Ramadhan

Where

In Alaska

Why

becouse closer to the North Pole than to the equator

What

we are know in Alaska fasting will be longer than other

Who

People Muslims in Alaska

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Main idea

: a flip side of the long days of Northern European summers

The short days the region sees in December, when Muslims there end up fasting fewer hours per day than their co-religionists in the Middle East.

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This year, the fast begins on the longest days of the solar year. This highlights the difference between Mecca in Saudi Arabia — where there are 2 1/2 hours' difference between the longest and shortest days — and Oslo, Norway, where the summer-winter gap is almost 13 hours.

differences in time due to weather factors

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Since Islam has spread from its Arabian heartland to the far reaches of the Earth, Muslims who live farther north must fast several hours longer than those in Mecca. On the year's longest day, June 21, some could end up fasting for as long as 20 hours.

mostly Muslim fasting a few hours longer

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