Posted on 04/17/2007 9:51:27 AM PDT by areafiftyone
I’d say that’s a pretty good wild guess. The connection with Islam is very thin at best. Sometimes people over-think things or are too clever by half. Your guess is better than most.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04172007/news/nationalnews/va__tech_killer_revealed_nationalnews_.htm
Sources told the Tribune that the words “ISMAIL AX” were also found written in red ink on the inside of one of Cho’s arms.
The reference may be to the Islamic account of the Biblical sacrifice of Abraham, where God commands the patriarch to sacrifice his own son. Abraham begins to comply, but God intervenes at the last moment to save the boy.
In the Jewish and Christian traditions, the son is Isaac, father of the Jewish people; in Islam, it is his brother, Ismail (Ishmael in Hebrew).
Abraham uses a knife in most versions of the story, but some accounts have him wielding an ax.
A more obscure reference may be to a passage in the Koran referring to Abraham’s destruction of pagan idols; in some accounts, he uses an ax to do so.
Move on to another barn then
You first!
The sad thing is that many people here will probably cite this as "evidence" that the crime was motivated by some Islamic connection.
In other words, let’s wait for the media to tell us what’s what. If there’s any Islamist connection here, they’ll be sure to report it.
Like they did with the Trolley Square killer last month.
I think that’s just it.
We’re expecting logic and patterns in the mind of a madman. It doesn’t exist. Answers won’t be there.
Just a wasteland of chaos. Sadly, that is what the truth probably is....jibberish.
The media didn’t tell us jack about that one, either.
I’m not grasping at any straws that I know of straws. I am posting what has been reported elsewhere, and commenting on how it has been edited. As I mentioned earlier, the Moby Dick reference would be the most logical explanation given that he was studying English in college, but we might never know, because this person is dead.
Seriously, the stretching is reaching a crescendo.
If they will, why haven’t they already? C’mon, find an example of one person seriously suggesting it.
What’s sad is the number of people who refuse to acknowledge there’s a war with Islam going on.
“Yep, they want to ignore the Muslim nickname that he took.”
I missed that. Any links?
Me too. To think that man lived through the nightmares of the 20th century and then ended up like this, and was saving lives as he died.
Post a link to one post seriously suggesting the word KOREAN has anything to do with the word KORAN. Just one link will do.
Bah, he wrote it with the opposite hand, it's "Xa Liamsi"....sounds Korean to me...;)
Wow.
A generation of heros!
Who's NOT acknowledging that we're at war? Hey, I'll agree, if people don't acknowledge that, then they have a problem. But acknowledging we're at war is one thing -- playing pin the tail on the donkey and trying to connect the two incidents based on his "Ismail Ax" reference is another.
If REAL evidence comes out that this was motivated by religion, then I say start making the connections. Otherwise, it's silly.
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