Do you honestly expect me to read all of that...can you summarize?
Oi...
I supplied the full text from Moby Dick for context...
The “perp” at VT chooses to call himself Ismail (which is the Islamic way of spelling Ishmael) - per the Bible Ishmael was the son of Abraham and became the father of the Arab / muslim race
Also the opening line in Moby Dick (note the perp was and English major) states “Call me Ishmael” -
...then in chapter 17 of Moby Dick (titled The Ramadan) Ishmael uses an axe rescuse his friend - Queequeg, who serves as the chief harpooner aboard the Pequod, and plays an important role in many of the events of the book... He was a “savage” cannibal that in Moby Dick celebrated Ramadan