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A reader at Right Truth sent me an email this afternoon about Ismail ax. He asked me to get the story right so as not to deceive anyone. He linked to IslamiCity.com and the article ‘Prophet Ibrahim The father of the Prophets.’ Here’s a portion of the article and the reader’s comments.

He [Ibrahim] left his father after he lost hope to convert him to the right path, and directed his efforts towards the people of the town, but they rejected his call and threatened him. By Allah, he said, I shall plot a plan to destroy their idols. He knew that a big celebration was coming soon, where everybody would leave town for a big feast on the riverbank. After making sure that nobody was left in town, Ibrahim went towards the temple armed with an ax. Statues of all shapes and sizes were sitting there adorned with decorations. Plates of food were offered to them, but the food was untouched. “Well, why don’t you eat? The food is getting cold.” He said to the statues, joking; then with his ax he destroyed all the statues except one, the biggest of them. He hung the ax around its neck and left.

The story goes on to state that his people bound him and threw him in the fire, but allah delivered him from the fire free of his bonds.

The legend continues with a debate between him and King Nimrod of Babylon, and then goes into the story of his relations with Hajar(Hagar) and their son Ismail(Ishmael). It also states that Ismail was the son that Ibrahim took to the mountain at allah’s request to be a sacrafice, but IN FACT we know that it was the LORD who told Abraham to take Isaac to the land of Moriah to be a burnt sacrafice.

The meaning behind Ismail’s ax is that it was used to destroy the idols that were a sign of debauchery, corruption and sin. As a result we have yet another instance of pure evil brought about by young man with demonic evil Islamic extremest beliefs.

We now know that the package Seung-hui Cho sent to NBC had the name Ismail ax [“A. Ishmael”] in the return address. The package contained 27 Quicktime videos filled with hate against the rich and strange comments pertaining to Christianity, in addition to writings and still shots. Cho called Columbine killers “martyrs” in a written document.

Charles Krauthammer on Fox News with Britt Hume, compared the videos to Islamic suicide bomber videos. Krauthammer also discussed the Ismail ax name, which was printed in red on Cho’s arm, and believes there is an Islamic element to Cho’s actions. He also believes the taking on a new name, Ismail ax, is something Islamic converts do.

Captain’s Quarters says: “Cho also apparently hated Christianity, and that makes the Ismail Ax reference more likely to be the James Fennimore Cooper theory that Hot Air …”

… reader Ray F. theorized a few days ago that “Ismail/Ishmael Ax” was a reference to James Fenimore Cooper’s story “The Prairie,” the lead character of which was “Ishmael Bush” — spelled the same way Cho spells it here. So let’s not rule that theory out just yet.

Also from Hot Air

Poet Nikki Giovanni, who taught Cho in one of her classes, tells the LA Times that she actually had guards stationed nearby at one point to intervene in case Psy-Cho (as See-Dub dubs him) went off. And here’s what she told CNN:

[snip] [In the fall of 2005,] Giovanni went to the department’s then-chairwoman, Lucinda Roy, and told her she wanted Cho out of her class, and Roy obliged.

“I was willing to resign before I was going to continue with him,” Giovanni said. “There was something mean about this boy.”

Atlas Shrugs is still wondering why the MSM is so silent on Ismail ax. She quotes Jerry Bowyer of TCS Daily, Ismail Ax: The Shooter Was Another ‘Son of Sacrifice’: