Posted on 04/19/2007 4:47:03 AM PDT by dangus
The following are ties Cho had to Islam. They are not offered as proof of anything, but merely to prompt consideration or disproof of any links.
Cho’s father lived in Saudi Arabia as a young, single man. His sister works for a State Department contractor which oversees billions of dollars of aid for Iraq. Previously, she worked in Bangkok. (1)
Both of Cho’s plays are about sexual abuse. (2) Bangkok is a city famous for its sex trade, which caters especially to Muslim businessmen.
Cho’s rampage was on Holocaust Remembrance day. Although probably a happenstance, one of the professors he killed was a Jewish holocaust survivor. (3)
Cho used the pseudonym Ismael Ax. Ismael (or, Ismail) is the son of Abraham who became the ancestor of all Arabs, as opposed to Israel who became ancestor of all Jews (4). Although there are many Western references to this person, and many literary characters named “Ishmael,” that spelling is Hebraic. “Ismael” or “Ismail” is uniquely Arabic. Ismaili is also a branch of Shiite Islam (5)
In each play, Cho’s characters rant about the horrible decadence of American life. Targets include McDonalds, the Roman Catholic church, Michael Jackson and the NFL. (2).
Cho is from Fairfax County, Virginia. This is also the home of 1 in 8 Virginians, but it is also the home of Yong Ki Kwon, a 29-year-old graduate of Virginia Tech, who, like Cho, is also from South Korea. Kwon was convicted of terrorism, one of the so-called “paintball Jihadis,” who practiced massacres with paintball guns. (6)
(1) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819852/posts
(2) http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/
(3) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819826/posts
(4) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819689/posts
(5) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1819044/posts
(6) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819029/posts
As Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
Could be he was a non-Islam-motivated fruitcake.
Personal opinion: a lot of the things seem to be a stretch, but they are things to consider.
P.S. Kudos on pointing out parts which could be extrapolations--i.e. 1 in 8 Virginians live in Fairfax County, and trying to give both sides of the story even when one side doesn't support your view.
Oh, good grief these are ‘ties to islam’ if you are playing seven degrees of separation. As such, we all have ‘ties to islam’.
We must also start considering the ties between radical Islam and mental illness. Why did it attract Osama Bin Laden, for example, and not the rest of his family?
such an imagination! This lunacy is worthy of Michael Moore et.al.
how do you sleep at night knowing that muslims also sleep horizontal?
There’s no doubt at all that some of his rantings were violent, hate filled, always blame others, victimhood above reason, similar to the violent, hate filled, always blame others, victimhood above reason of muslims.
They do?
Are you SURE???
There are no Cho ties to islam.
He also said he had terror in his heart.
We will find out when his writings are released.
Pray for W and Our Troops
“There are no Cho ties to islam.”
Other than the Islamic name on his arm, that is.
He also made a “martyr taps,” we haven’t seen the whole thing yet.
If it walks like a duck and looks like a duck it usually is a duck, but enough times it isn't that you have to think about alternates anyway.
Paul is dead.
Propped up against a tree trunk clutching my weapon, of course!
I know you may have tried to imply this, but just for clarity:
The line is Abraham > Isaac > Jacob (Israel).
Isaac and Ishmael were brothers.
Jacob (Israel) had 12 sons (12 tribes).
Go over to jihadwatch.com. Robert Spencer points out that the online jihadists are applauding Cho as if he’s on of their own, and have even given him honorary moslem names.
Here is some more interesting research on bread.
1: More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters.
2: Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3: In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4: More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5: Bread is made from a substance called “dough.” It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6: Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low occurrence of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and osteoporosis.
7: Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after only two days.
8: Bread is often a “gateway” food item, leading the user to “harder” items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter and even cold cuts.
9: Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10: Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11: Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12: Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
As Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
Could be he was a non-Islam-motivated fruitcake.
Same thought here.
Like Islam itself, Cho was a nihilistic and self-absorbed loser.
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