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The Meaning of Ismail Ax
Bangkokker ^ | April 17, 2007 | Mike Clyne

Posted on 04/17/2007 9:31:55 PM PDT by TBP

For those of you still searching for meaning in this phrase, written in ink on Cho Seung-Hui's arm and also how he signed his infamous note, it starts with the story of Ibrahim's Ax (Ibrahim = Abraham):

After making sure that nobody was left in town, Ibrahim went towards the temple armed with an ax. Statues of all shapes and sizes were sitting there adorned with decorations. Plates of food were offered to them, but the food was untouched. "Well, why don't you eat? The food is getting cold." He said to the statues, joking; then with his ax he destroyed all the statues except one, the biggest of them. He hung the ax around its neck and left. --The Koran

Ismail was Ibrahim's son. It was Ismail that Ibrahim wanted to sacrifice for Yahweh (with an ax).

A reader pointed out that "Ismail" is also a variant on the narrator in Moby Dick, and although Cho was an English major, the relationship between Moby Dick's Ismail and an ax/e is less clear.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Miscellaneous; Religion
KEYWORDS: cho; ismaelax; ismailax; massacre; virginiatech

1 posted on 04/17/2007 9:31:59 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP
See my hypothesis about a psychiatric expert specializing in the very disorders that affected Cho:

ISMAIL AK (not AX): Possible lead in Virginia Tech case?

2 posted on 04/17/2007 9:34:37 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (You got Ismail!)
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To: TBP
Maybe 'AX' stands for the Asian Excellence Awards Committee... http://www.axawards.com/axacommittee/index.html
3 posted on 04/17/2007 9:35:08 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: Charles Henrickson
Charles, go to http://www.axawards.com/honorees/index.html and look in the names for 2006...see anything interesting?
4 posted on 04/17/2007 9:39:49 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: beezdotcom
I wonder how many of these our shooter would have seen as an English major... http://www.lib.vt.edu/services/circ-reserve/brochures/ismail_merchant.pdf
5 posted on 04/17/2007 9:55:31 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: TBP

I think Charles Henrickson has a more intriguing explanation.

ISMAIL AK (not AX): Possible lead in Virginia Tech case?
April 17, 2007 | Charles Henrickson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1819078/posts

Posted on 04/17/2007 8:28:56 PM PDT by 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:


6 posted on 04/17/2007 10:56:38 PM PDT by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
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ping.


7 posted on 04/17/2007 10:59:43 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Fred Thompson)
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To: TBP

There is also another Book Ishmael An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinnn.


8 posted on 04/18/2007 7:27:08 AM PDT by ropo
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To: beezdotcom

Two things - Tarantino and, something about Marilyn Monroe. Cho seemed to be inspired by Tarantinoesque “gunvahlunce.” One of Cho’s plays seems to indicate Cho is into conspriracy theories about her death.


9 posted on 04/18/2007 3:34:25 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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