Whenever Kaan and I are walking around, he always makes sure to pick up and move any bread that's found on the ground. He says it's a sin to step on, to walk on food. I've only done a few brief, basic searches on Google, but I haven't found anything specifically forbidding it. Verifiability isn't really what I'm concerned out; rather, I'm curious about from where this belief/understanding comes from. While stumbling around today, I came across a trivia list with the above 'fact'. Again, I'm not interested really in whether or not it's the truth (but Evrim, if you are familiar with this, please let me know!). What's interesting to me is that this superstition/belief/whatever has made its way into the practice of Islam in Kaan's family.
That's really the whole purpose to this post; I discovered something cultural that I didn't know before.
Also, some big German person has come to the German
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It turns out that the visitor wasn't just ANY big German person.. it was Chancellor Merkel herself. She apparently visited a few sites in Istanbul, including our neighborhood German high school. I took a few photos and didn't see much else. I let a cameraman into the apartment to take some footage (probably not the best idea, but I was excited to help someone get a good shot!). If I can find the clip, I'll be sure to post it. I'll try to post some of the pictures I took too. It was really interesting to see just how many people were actually involved in the street security process. I think there were about 15 cars in the whole procession! I'll be sure to update with news articles as I find them.
Well, I'm no expert on Islam or any other organized religion but from my 20 years of experience, yeah people see it as a sin and it's really really common. And not just bread, generally any food (nimet, blessing). But as you know religions, at least Islam (because it's the one that I'm more familiar with) is made of customs and traditions of people more than the Quran itself. As I said, all the food is considered sacred, and as you know bread is the most important food in Turkey. So probably that made it the most sacred food, maybe a Chinese muslim wouldn't care about it that much :) I'm not sure but yes many consider it as a sin, it's taught that if you find bread on the floor, you take it, kiss it and put it on your forehead, and repeat this three times. I have also found something, they are discussing this also, check it out http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:YjGGnqxOvUcJ:www.dinimislam.com/forum/archive/ekmege-basmanin-hukmu-nedirg-t4086.html+ekme%C4%9Fe+basmak&cd=2&hl=tr&ct=clnk&gl=tr (by the way they have a great habit of calling something haram (forbidden). and when they can't find what they are looking for in Quran, they say they've seen a hadith (prophet's saying), and they've read it on their hundreds of years old "very reliable" sources.)
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