Those who knew him from high school? The guy who doesn’t say a word to anyone about anything? It’s a wonder any of them even know the dude’s name, let alone what religions or movements he was interested in or sympathetic to.
And I’m not sure what your point is about the “Ax”. Because the reference is still a mystery, you can say with certitude that it had no Koranic significance to the dead mass murder?
You can say it, but it doesn’t make it true.
I'm curious about that angle. He was almost completely silent and anti-social all through college, 4 years. He was the same way in high school, at least a portion of high school. Who knows when he started this behavior. So we're looking at anywhere between 5 - 8 years of bizarre behavior. Why didn't his parents take action, or was he a different person around them?
If I was completely silent and anti-social for years upon years with MY parents, I would have gotten my ass kicked by my dad and then committed to an institution by my mom. They certainly wouldn't have sent me to Tech to get a college degree.
People knew who he was. WHY IS THAT STRANGE? Don't you remember people you went to school with, who weren't your friends?
I happen to know that there is nothing in the Bible or in the Koran that links Ishmael/Ismail with "AX".
The guy was a demented maniac. Maybe , just maybe, the AX thing means NOTHING . Just some wacky name he made up .