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" A hungry boy waits to break fast with devotees on the first day of Ramadan at a Singapore mosque yesterday. For a month, Muslim believers will fast from dawn to dusk. — Reuters

MUSLIMS in much of Asia began celebrating the holy month of Ramadan yesterday Cheap Fjallraven Kanken Big Backpack Lake Blue Australia , but in Indonesia even threats by hardliners to raid “sinful” bars could not stop football fans heading to nightspots to watch the World Cup.

Across the Muslim world, the faithful fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious during the month, which ends with the Eid holiday.

Indonesia has the world’s biggest Muslim population at around 225 million people.

Hardliners have pledged to raid bars that continue to sell alcohol, which Muslims are banned from drinking under Islamic law, or stay open too late. Authorities order bars and other nightspots to close earlier during the holy month.

Radical group the Islamic Defenders’ Front would “monitor any sinful activities in entertainment places Cheap Fjallraven Kanken Mini Backpack Sky Blue Australia , cafes and bars during Ramadan,” said Salim Alatas, the group’s chief in the capital Jakarta.

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But the threats did little to deter people in the football-crazy nation from heading out to catch the latest World Cup action. Bars that remained open in Jakarta were packed with locals and expatriates over the weekend.

Endika Setiadi Putra, 27, said that with the World Cup now in the knockout stages, the excitement would keep drawing people to watch the matches in bars even during Ramadan.

The holy season also presents a dilemma for Muslim players in the World Cup, as choosing to fast will affect the strict diets they usually have to follow.

The problem is most pressing for the team from Muslim-majority Algeria Cheap Fjallraven Kanken Mini Backpack Frost Green Australia , who are facing a tough match against Germany.

For many other Indonesians, the start of the holy month of Ramadan was a time to be with their families or take part in special prayers, with thousands heading to Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, the biggest in Southeast Asia, on Saturday evening.

Sri Lanka’s Muslims Cheap Fjallraven Kanken Mini Backpack Brown Australia , who account for about 10 percent of the country’s 20 million population of mainly Buddhists, are set to observe a low-key Ramadan after a spate of recent religious attacks.

The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, which groups nearly 50 Muslim organizations, said authorities had promised tighter security but many were still afraid of Buddhist extremist attacks after four people were killed in religious riots this month.

In Malaysia, Muslims Cheap Fjallraven Kanken Mini Backpack Graphite Australia , who account for 60 percent of the country’s 28 million people, were spending the late afternoon buying food at markets or meeting at restaurants to break the first fast together in the evening.

Ramadan begins when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. The holy month was also starting across the Middle East, even as bloody conflicts rage in Iraq and Syria.

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BERLIN, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Only 12 months ago Bayern Munich was in trouble.

The team was good enough to get through their group phase of the Champions League, but far from strong enough to make it to the top of the most important club competition in football. And that for a simple reason: The German champion was unable to substitute injured key players like Franck Ribery or Arjen Robben.

One year later Cheap Fjallraven Kanken Classic Backpack Purple Australia , the 2013 Champions League winner has learned its lesson through painful defeats in the semifinal in the last two years against Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. With Pep Guardiola's team beating the Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb 5-0 (4-0)in their second Group F match of the 20152016 campaign (3-0 first game against Piraeus), Bayern has changed. Meaning: The Germans have added some special players to their squad - ones that are, more or less, of an equal caliber to the ones out injured.

These days Bayern can afford to leave Javier Martinez, Rafinha Cheap Fjallraven Kanken Classic Backpack Frost Green Australia , Thomas Mueller and Xabi Alonso on the bench when they go into a group match like the one against the 14-time Croatian champion Zagreb.

Goals by Costa, Goetze and Lewandowski (3) handed Bayern an easy win despite the fact that Arturo Vidal, Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben are all out injured.

Despite the transfers of Douglas Costa (30 million euros from Shakhtar Donetsk) and Kingsley Coman (20 million from Juventus) - who are supposed to replace Ribery and Robben - Bayern A is not to a full extent equal with Bayern B - but much better than anything the club has been able to put out until now. It looks like the new Bayern will be strong enough to beat the best to be the very best this season.

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It is the mentality of a team and a coach like Pep Guardiola who are aware that it will be their last year together and they are desperate to make the best of it.

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