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It was “A. Ishmael” on the label.
Your reasoning is extremely weak on this point.
Because people have offered various, mostly far-fetched hypotheses as to what the significance of the reference to “Ismail/Ishmael” might be (which designation was indisputably of importance to this a-hole), your logical conclusion from that is that one should therefore exclude out of hand, even though we know relatively little about this guy, any possibility that he was influenced by islamism? How does that make any sense?
You said — “Because people have offered various, mostly far-fetched hypotheses as to what the significance of the reference to “Ismail/Ishmael” might be (which designation was indisputably of importance to this a-hole), your logical conclusion from that is that one should therefore exclude out of hand, even though we know relatively little about this guy, any possibility that he was influenced by islamism? How does that make any sense?”
That’s because there is *nothing* moving the investigation in the direction of Islam — except some ramblings of some people on Free Republic. That’s the only place I see a *shred* of Islam. And that’s a mighty weak thread...
Regards,
Star Traveler
Ishmael, a book by Daniel Quinn? The theme seems to be a rant (by a gorilla) about the condition of civilization as compared to the ‘utopian’ version of society pre-ten thousand years ago.