First it was Johnny Muhammad, now it was Cho Sueng Hui aka Ismail Ax. Precisely how many mass shooters have to turn out to have adopted Muslim names before we get it? Islam has become the tribe of choice of those who hate American society. I'm not talking about people who grew up as Muslims, confident and secure in their faith, good fathers, sons and neighbors. I'm talking about the angry, malignant, narcissist loners who want to reject their community utterly, to throw off their 'slave name' and represent the downtrodden of the earth by shooting their friends and neighbors.
This morning I read that the Virginia Tech shooter died with the name Ismail Ax written in red ink on his arm. The mainstream press doesn't seem to have a clue as to what this might mean. To quote Indiana Jones, ';Didn't any of you guys go to Sunday School?';
The story starts with a man named Abraham. He is the father of the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians. He was born in Iraq, the son of a wealthy idol manufacturer. He came to believe that there was only one true God and, according to tradition, took up his ax and destroyed his father's idols.
Eventually he left Iraq and moved to what is now known as Israel. He had a son with his concubine whom she named Ishmael. The Muslim world prefers the Arabic spelling of the name: Ismail. Eventually Abraham had a son by his rightful wife and named the son Isaac. Ishmael and his mother were disinherited and sent out into what is now Saudi Arabia. Isaac became the heir.
Eventually, God decided to test Abraham by telling him to kill his son, Isaac. Abraham took up the knife, but God stopped him at the last moment. Isaac lived and eventually became a man of great wealth. Ishmael became a desert warrior chieftain.
The Jews are the descendants of Isaac, the Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael.
In the 7th Century, Muhammad, the founder of Islam, re-wrote the story, claiming that Ismail was the true faithful descendant of Abraham and that it was he, not Isaac, who God told Abraham to sacrifice. Ismail was the one saved. For Muslims, Ismail (not Isaac) was the true 'Son of Sacrifice.' In the original version of the story, Abraham used a knife, in some of the later Muslim versions, he used an Ax.
Flash forward 1,400 years: a sullen, angry young man who rages against rich people and apparently against Christians, writes a play in which a mother and son try to kill his step-father, but in the end the boy (age about 13, the age many think Ismail was when he was exiled) is murdered by the step-father with 'a deadly blow'. Father issues? Yeah, I think so.
Cho Sueng-hui *** Ismail Ax hated the American society to which he had been brought 15 years earlier. His play McBeef (a poor pun from an English Lit major on Macbeth) is one endless screed against the corruption of American culture. A cheesy re-telling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, it involves a young man abused by his step-father, a former NFL football player. The son, throws epithets at his father calling him a 'Catholic priest'. And makes derisive comments about McDonalds. It seems that none of the foundational structures of Western Civilization, Christianity, capitalism, family, are spared his rage. In other words, he really meant what he said in his last words: ';you (that is us, America) made me do this.';Do you want to learn more about Ismail Axe?
I think it is very wise for us to know this story.Do you want to learn more about Ismail Axe?
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ALL humans are fearful, misunderstanding, misunderstood, hating killers... there are a few that go beyond this ';human condition'; to become something better. keep trying... you can get there...
If he was Muslim and doing it for Islam one would think this delusional person might have said something about it.
And even if he does, this does not make my beautiful religion, any less meaningful.
Good day
The gunman's family confirmed that he wouldn't even talk before he left South Korea. He had deep-seat mental issues that were made worse by Korean-bashing students.
Why does his terribly unstable mind have to be considered this way? His rantings specifically show he was not coherent and it is an insult to any ones religion that you would even question it like this.
Oh I'm sure you don't think it's cool when people bring up similar atrocities commited by Christians.
America is so evil, don't cha know?
C'mon.
We gave the world blue jeans and Michael Jackson.
Thriller, people.
The man made Thriller.
So, if I am getting this correct, the rantings of a delusional homicidal maniac of Korean descent and his actions means that all Muslims are bad. Do I get a cookie now? If that really is what you are trying to get at, your logic is just as twisted as his. BTW: TOO LONG!!!
The truth is he was extremely unstable!!!!!!!!!
At this point, the short answer is no. There is no single cure akin to penicillin for bacterial pneumonia. PTSD affects our system of remembering, causing ';hot'; memories that come out of the
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