Did you read the article? He's a psychopath. The girl killed in the AM was not his g/f. Her ex was in some interrogaiton room at the time of the 2nd shooting. The guy was a loner, no friends noted, his English profs turned hin in to the U counseling service, because of his disturbed writing, and the counseling service determined that he was bizarre. He committed arson in the dorm recently and was otherwise noted as committing hostile acts recently.
Islam has nothing to do with it, other than picking up coincidental pieces of lunacy. He could very well have picked up Chistian characters as elements of his psychosis.
Except that Christian doctrine doesn't provide a pretext for mass murder, as Islamic doctrine does. Which comes first, the misanthrope or the Islamic believer? There have been about five or six cases of mass-murdering American jihadists in the last few years. Most were converts to Islam. Most would probably be described as disturbed individuals or loners -- or anti-social at the very least.
When a mass-murderer writes on his arm in red ink, "Ismail," there is reason to at least suspect that jihadic ideology played some part in this bloodbath.
Ismail, Ishmael, Izmail, Isma'il may refer to:Ismail bin Jafar, the religious figure of which Ismaili Shiah Muslims follow and are named after.
Ishmael, son of Abraham, mentioned in both the Torah and the Qur'an
Izmail, a town in Ukraine
Isma'il Pasha (1830–1895), wali and khedive of Egypt, also known as Ismail the Magnificent
Ismail I, the founder of the Safavid dynasty
Ismail Samani, the Samanid amir
Mawlay Ismail Ibn Sharif of Morocco (1645/46-1727)