Ismail Ax: The Shooter Was Another 'Son of Sacrifice'

TCS Daily ^ | 4/18/07 | Jerry Bowyer

[Political Junkie Too]

This guy was an English major. What makes you so sure he was referencing Islam, as opposed to say, Melville?

I don't think he was referring to Melville for several reasons:

1) In Moby Dick, they used harpoons to attack whales, not axes.

2) Ishmael, the narrator of the tale, was the sole survivor, and this guy clearly had no intention of surviving. Why then would he name himself after the only survivor of the Pequod?

3) Ishmael was neither the protagonist nor the antagonist of the story, Ahab and Moby Dick were. Is it Ahab raging after Moby Dick for taking his leg that is the symbolic attraction for this guy (then what does Moby Dick represent, evil USA culture?)?

There are much more topical references than Melville to attract this guy, I think.

-PJ

[mysterio]

I’m still unconvinced this guy has anything to do with Islam.

[Traianus]

REALLY??

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819852/posts

[Veto!]

If I were an enterprising young reporter I’d be looking for some of the other English majors who went to school with this nut to interview in the hope of finding out if he’s been fed a steady diet of anti-American propaganda in his college courses.

Great idea. I saw some mainstream reporter question two male VT English profs briefly on a campus sidewalk. When he asked them if they knew Cho, they looked at each other, mumbled, and the most articulate one finally mumbled , no, we never heard of him. Riight. The profs had that scruffy longhaired leftwing look, I might add.

[RavenATB]

“Great idea.”

It came out today on American Thinker.com. Turns out I was spot on...not that it was a daring guess.