It's November and too warm to feel like winter. Christmas lights blink and flash along the middle-class Tempe neighborhood. Plastic reindeer prance on brownish-gray rock lawns. At the end of the almost deserted street, intense green lights outline a one-story home. This house seems out of place - like the family that lives inside.

There are no plastic Santas in the lawn. No Christmas lights. Instead, a makeshift Happy Ramadan! banner hangs from the front of the house. Below it an old man and his 8-year-old-granddaughter write more Ramadan greetings on the large front windows with white chalk. At the door, the Egyptian Eye of Ra stares fiercely from a metal plaque with Arabic calligraphy. Below the plaque is a small Mexican flag.

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