[VaBthang4]

I do not know if there is any connection whatsoever to the Ismael's Ax said to have been written on the VaTech shooters arm...nevertheless. For discussion.

[Alouette]

Another FReeper has suggested that this is actually Ismail Ak, a prominent Turkish psychiatrist who specializes in psychopharmacology and sociopathic disorders.

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[Charles Henrickson]

ISMAIL AK

Dr. ISMAIL AK is a Professor of Psychiatry at a university in Turkey. His research interests include the following:

Personal Disorders, Agresivve behavior and self-mutilation, ECT, Substance-related disorders, Sexual Disorders, Forensic Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders

From the Turkish Association of Psychopharmacology website:

President-elect:
Professor Ismail AK, M.D. Head, Department of Psychiatry, KTU School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey
Ismail AK is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Head, Department of Psychiatry, KTU School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey
He is an experienced on clinical psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.

Dr. Ismail Ak is one of the authors of an article about patients with mental disorders, psychotic features, etc.:

As regards pharmacotherapies, 354 (50.2%) were given antidepressants. . . . Among antidepressants, Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were 72.8%. . . .

This is an abstract of an article co-written by Dr. ISMAIL AK:

Even though all psychiatric disorders do not have the same potential with regard to committing a crime, the number of individuals having psychiatric disorders is gradually going up depending on the increase of crimes and violent behaviors committed in a society. . . . The relation between existence of psychiatric disorder and crime behavior has been significantly emphasized in several earlier studies. In conclusion, it is notable that the rates of committing crime for the individuals with psychiatric disorders are on the rise.

Dr. Ismail Ak is apparently one of the world's leading experts on the psychiatry of antisocial and suicidal behavior, psychotic and bipolar disorders, psychopharmacological therapy, etc.

The young man had been noticed to be disturbed and had been referred to counseling. Dr. Ismail Ak is an expert and author in the particular field most directly related to the guy's disorder.

So it's possible that the writing on the guy's arm said

ISMAIL AK

and the K was written in a way that people *thought* it said

ISMAIL AX

That seems more likely to me than a connection to Moby Dick or to Islamic terrorism.

This is an angle the investigators need to pursue with the school's counseling service, the killer's computer, and Dr. Ismail Ak himself.

[dangus]

Well, he spells the name of Cooper’s character, and of Dr. Ax incorrectly, then. I just posted a vanity proposing that he may have been Muslim; in his play, his psychotically violent main character, despite having an American name, uses “Fat piece of pork” and “McPork” as epithets. Calling someone a pig sounds American. Calling someone “a piece of pork” sounds oddly Muslim.

[an amused spectator]

Thanks for posting this, V.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

And when Abram saw all these things his anger was kindled against his father, and he hastened and took a hatchet in his hand, and came unto the chamber of the gods, and he broke all his father's gods."

Very inconsiderate - I expect my kids to behave better.

[JewishRighter]

The basic story line is taken from Jewish sources, I believe the Midrash.

[JewishRighter]

Bereishit (Genesis) Rabbah 38:13 Genesis Rabba (Bereshit Rabba in Hebrew: בראשית רבה) is a religious text holy to classical Judaism. It is a midrash comprising a collection of ancient rabbinical homiletical interpretations of the book of Genesis (Bereshit in Hebrew). It is expository midrash to the first book of the Torah, assigned by tradition to the amora Hoshaiah (or Osha'yah) who flourished in the third century in Palestine. The midrash forms a haggadic commentary on Genesis, in keeping with the midrashic exegesis of that age. source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Rabba

[Sensei Ern]

The rumor I saw ported about was that was his World of Warcraft name.