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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (333975)	4/18/2007 5:55:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575173

Ted, > It means the axe that Abraham was going to use to kill Ishmail. I don't remember reading about that. All I know is that Abraham dismissed Ishmael because his mother was distressed that he was bothering his half-brother Isaac I was repeating what one of his [Cho's]roommates said was the significance of the tattoo. But you're right......it wasn't Ishmail that the Lord asked Abraham to sacrifice, it was Isaac. And Abraham was going to use a knife, not an axe to kill Isaac. Didn't Ishmail's offspring become the founders of Islam......maybe it was an anti Muslim tat. Then again, there is speculation it meant this: "One possible source of the gunman's reference to "Ismail Ax" on inside of his arm is... James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie. Character Ishmael Bush had an axe. "And the axe, which created and transformed through destruction, clears the figurative way for the deflowering of the New World." The axe is apparently both literal and symbolic, and references are made about the character's having moved from the east to the west, creating change through the destruction (using the axe), and the like. Just a possibility, esp. for someone who was an English major?