Comments on: Call me Ismail…Ax

By: Matt Stone

Matt Stone — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:40:21 +0000

Truly Bizzare Regards Matt Stone

By: Club Troppo » Missing Link

Club Troppo » Missing Link — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:24:25 +0000

[...] Peter Black noted another subtle shift in news reporting: for the first time – in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings – MSM outlets purchased sponsored keyword google ads that ensured they weren’t bumped down the list. Ads aside, there’s never any shortage of loopy amateur psychology in the MSM, and Muslim blog Austrolabe discusses a particularly noxious example: the fact that killer Cho Seung-Hui had an allegedly Islamic name scrawled on his arm, and signed the narcissistic little package he sent to NBC as ‘A Ishmael’. Also in the wake of this psychological theorizing, Legal Eagle reflects on mental health issues, and the difficult balancing act between privacy and protection confronting us now. [...]

By: VA Tech shooter was a mind-controlled assassin: - Islamica Community Forums

VA Tech shooter was a mind-controlled assassin: - Islamica Community Forums — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:09:42 +0000

[...] Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy If he believes that mass murderers are mind controlled robots under the command of aerospace corporations because they played a certain type of video game and took SSRIs….. then he’s a moron ws Heres an interesting thought though… I know some people on this message board were personally and directly effected by the massacre because they attend Virginia Tech and knew some of the people who were murdered. I wonder if they will receive these idiotic half backed conspiracy fantasies differently when they are about a tragedy that had a personal impact on their lives allahu a3lam ws It may be a stupid theory, but its better than the ridiculous bull**** people like Debbie Slutschel are trying to push. They’ve been trying to make Cho into a Muslim(even though several Muslims were murdered by him). __________________ "Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart."-Shaykh al-Akbar, Ibn Arabi (Rahmatullah Alayhi) [...]

By: Eldarossell

Eldarossell — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:22:57 +0000

Hi .. I’m Eldarossell , the one who had been mentioned above.
I’m glad that now everybody understand that my friend is not the shooter and that there’s no connection between the murder and I.

Joey: you are right about Islam doesn’t believe Jesus was crucified. But not about he lived until old age, and died peacefully. We believe that he was lift up to heaven by God.

By: muslimmatters.org » Cho Seung-Hui: Undercover Muslim Terrorist or Just Certifiably Crazy?

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:24:53 +0000

[...] Update: Please check this post at Austrolabe for a good analysis of the Ismail ax thing. [...]

By: Amal

Amal — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:06:15 +0000

This is a great summary, mashallah.

I was shocked that within a day of the tragedy, people were finding ways to link it to Muslims, or should I say “Islamists”?

It’s at least of some comfort that the blogosphere has its share of posts rejecting such links, going so far as to show how these erroneous ideas spread like wildfire, and also illustrating what happens when you leave the simple-minded unattended on the net.

By: Safia

Safia — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:33:48 +0000

Salaam,

He ranted about a lot of things. According to msnbc, the writing on his arm was “Ismael Ax”, not Ismail, and the return address on the package was to “A Ishmael.” In one part of his rantings he said “thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people.” He references the Columbine shooters. He rants against his rich classmates.

What I can gather from all this is……the man was severely mentally ill. Or clearly a jihadist. You know, either one.

By: Amad

Amad — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:20:04 +0000

We have a couple of posts related to this event: Waleed Shaalan- A Tribute to a Muslim Hero at Virginia Tech [5 UPDATES] Virginia Tech Tragedy, One Muslim Brother Dead. [5 UPDATES]== talking about some of the conspiracy theories.

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:51:52 +0000

On his video, Cho compares himself to Jesus Christ and the crucifixion.

That’s funny, because Islam doesn’t believe Jesus was crucified. They believe that he lived until old age, and died peacefully.

Could it be that Cho was a Christian who believed in the “end times”, and wanted to be martyred for Christ? Most of these end time nuts rail against hypocrisy, hedonism, liberalism, and consider non-psycho Christians as false.