I suspected he was being sarcastic... Where I live that is not a crime.
Oh, it's not?
I was not implying there's anything wrong with a sarcastic remark, so your comment is pointless. As I said in my response I WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW. I honestly could not tell if he was asking a serious question or if he was poking fun at me. Nothing more than that. Sometimes the style in which Binyamin speaks can make a person wonder. I guess you read his mind since the post he put under this confirmed it was sarcasm just as you speculated.
If he did mean it as a smart alec reply, I am not angry with him or upset in any way, so you can un-bunch your panties over it. That being said, I do have to question his use of sarcasm in response to my particular statement. Doing so implies that my statement (That "Jewish people do not name their kids Yishmael") was not true, even though all 3 of us know it is absolutely true 100%.
(It also implies that I somehow overlooked the fact that the name Yishmael comes from the pasuk or that a tanna had this name, but I don't need to reply to his personal attack which is just plain silly, and unlike his behavior toward me, I will try to refrain from purposefully making him look foolish).