Ismail Ax?

Hmmmm? Seems that the Virginia Tech shooter died with that phrase written on his arm. It is also how he reportedly signed the suicide "note" found after his demise. The New York Post reports:

The reference may be to the Islamic account of the Biblical sacrifice of Abraham, where God commands the patriarch to sacrifice his own son. Abraham begins to comply, but God intervenes at the last moment to save the boy.

In the Jewish and Christian traditions, the son is Isaac, father of the Jewish people; in Islam, it is his brother, Ismail (Ishmael in Hebrew).
Abraham uses a knife in most versions of the story, but some accounts have him wielding an ax.

A more obscure reference may be to a passage in the Koran referring to Abraham's destruction of pagan idols; in some accounts, he uses an ax to do so.

Atlas Shrugs has more on the perp. Seems a certain foto of what appeared to be him was posted on a website of a new friend with the quote:

He's a South Korean. Ismail is not his real name. He use it because his name is very hard to pronounce, especially for Indonesian people. His real name is Cho Seung Hoo ....... or is it Jo Sung Ho?

I am sure it is just a coincidence. No Islam connection here, just a crazy psycho killing folks at random......move along.

Curiouser & Curiouser....