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