Issue and Opponent: One of the main precepts of Islam is that all healthy adults must refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and sexual intercourse between dawn and sunset during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. In Algeria, where Islam is the state religion, breaking the Ramadan fast in public is punishable by fine and imprisonment. Until the civil war with Islamists during the 1990s, the observance of Ramadan was more relaxed in Algeria, at least in the cities, but protesters denounce the progressive Islamisation of the country. In July 2013, three young people were questioned by security forces while they were eating outside, in the Kabylie region during the 18-hour daily fasting period. The owners of the cafe were reported to the police and their license was revoked for a few days. Protestants say that those who do not practice Islam are being persecuted for not observing the same traditions Dilemma Action: On August 3, 2013, some Algerians known as “non-fasters” gathered in the city Tizi Ouzou, in the northern area of the country to share a lunch and drinks in protest against the forced fasting imposed by the Islamic government. It is estimated that between 200 and 500 people gathered at this shared lunch to protest against the official imposition. The protestors claimed that they were not attacking Islam, but asking for freedom to practice their own beliefs. Outcome: Although several local Islamic associations expressed their indignation and called on the state to punish those involved, the lunch in Tizi-Ouzou, about 60 miles from Algiers, the capital, was not contested by either local Islamists or authorities. However, the Algerian Minister of Religious Affairs Abu Abdellah Ghoulamallah said the picnics were “provocative and ridiculous”.