Posted on 04/17/2007 3:50:27 PM PDT by dangus
I read the following from Little Green Footballs:
"Apparently, South Korean student Seung Hui Cho signed his note, “Ismail Ax,” and also wrote those words on his arm. All other signs right now point to this being a deranged individual with a history of odd behavior (not a “sudden jihadi”), but this is very curious."
Hotair.com suggests that he meant only to refer to a story by an author named Ishmael:
You probably already know this, but in James Fennimore Cooper’s story “The Prairie,” the settler Ishmael Bush, who is attempting to escape from civilization, sets out across the prairie with two key tools, a gun and an axe. Each has a symbolic meaning. The axe — which can either kill or provide shelter — stands for both creation and destruction. Given that the VT killer was an English major, might this be the likely meaning of the words on his arm? Just my two cents.
And its widely reported that Cho's writings freaked out one of his English professors. Smoking Gun had one on-line. I read it.
What immidiately stood out was some of the strange language Cho's character used: All of the characters have typically American names, yet "John" uses some strange epithets. The story is basically about a step-son's unexplained rage at a step-father whom he accuses of killing his real father, and (falsely), of molesting him. The father a "fat piece of pork," and "McPork." (The latter is a mockery of his unusual, and unexplained, last name, McBeef.)
It's only weak evidence, I know, but it's just so straaaange...
I agree.
He was a madman, he went on an evil rampage and murdered 32 people.
Did I leave anything out?
I think you about covered it.
It sounds like a senseless killing.
Sounds like a Va Senator Jim Webb novel.
Ditto. People are fishing here.
The murderer wrote a play with banging the soles of shoes as an insult, calling someone “McPork” as an insult, wrote “Ismail Ax” on his left arm, ranted against women and debauchery...then killed 32 people (including a Jewish professor who survived the Holocaust) on Holocaust Memorial Day.
I was thinking the same thing
Will be interesting to see in the coming weeks how much the lib media kisses this POS ass as compared to Don Imus. So far I`ve heard every excuse in the book for this punk; “He was depressed, he had a fight with his girlfriend, he was on medication..waaah waaah waaah” How about maybe he was just plain old racist?
Fruity as a nutcake.
I wouldn’t look much beyond that at this point.
Better to focus on opposing the liberal politicization of the aftermath. We are going to have to fight fire with fire on this one folks.
yes indeed. We need to know if he had a koran and what he was doing on his computer. We also need to see the rest of his writings.
The DC snipers were inspired by islam as well.
Given what we now know about Cho, Dr. Ismail Ak would seem to be an appropriate source of such information.
It's quite noteworthy that he was just 23 years of age. Just about all the family medical insurance policies would have cut him off at 22, so he'd be without psychiatric advice or services since that time.
There is still a place for formal commitment procedures with the government (SEE: Taxpayers) picking up the tab.
he lived here in northern VA since he was 8 years old. where would he have been trained? i am thinking he is a normal suburban VA kid gone bad.
Well if he was he was a quiet one. Usually Allah Ackbar is being yelled when they are in the orgiastic throws of their violence. I haven’t heard any reports of that so far...just that he had a smile and said nothing.
Why do we need to know these things?
That sounds like the most likely Ismail, must be a more common name than I ever knew. Still doesn’t explain the K or X, though. But Virginia clicks.
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