CAIR tells us that Ramadan is about "discipline, self-restraint and generosity" The 1973 Arab sneak attack on Israel, which we usually call "The Yom Kippur War", is referred to, in the Arab world, as the Ramadan War. Pretty good evidence of the sort of restraint and generosity that marks this event.
The significance of Ramadan to me is that a billion a-rabs will be sitting down to supper every day about dark with their minds only on feeding their faces...