David Letterman threatened from jihadist website

NEW YORK - A frequent contributor to a jihadist website has threatened David Letterman, urging Muslim followers to "cut the tongue" of the late-night host because of a joke the comic made on his CBS show.

The Site Monitoring Service, a private intelligence organization that watches online activity, said Wednesday that the threat was posted a day earlier on the Shumuka al-Islam forum, a popular Internet destination for radical Muslims.

The contributor, who identified himself as Umar al-Basrawi, was reacting to what he said Letterman did after the U.S. military announced on June 5 that a drone strike in Pakistan had killed al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri.

Al-Basrawi wrote that Letterman had made reference to both Osama bin Laden and Kashmiri and said that Letterman had demonstrated on his neck how Kashmiri died.

There was no comment from CBS or Letterman.

[gilliamjf]

Letterman has the support of NYC. He's not going anywhere.

[txlakeside]

Amazing how similar Jihadist and Christians really are! Can you say Tim McVeigh? The American Taliban are alive and well in the the religious right! My way or the highway is a familiar theme with any religious nut! They are alive and well in the religious right and often manifest themselves in the whining teababies and Rick Perry!!

[bobnjersey]

[A frequent contributor to a jihadist website has threatened David Letterman, urging Muslim followers to "cut the tongue" of the late-night host because of a joke the comic made on his CBS show.]
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this sounds like it might have been a member of the republican party ... a mentally disturbed authoritarian follower who simply would want to silence someone who says something they don't like ... just like they did when he told the joke about sarah palin's daughter.

[baileyccc]

I do not support the jihadist website at all, but Letterman is no Carson, he is a miserable ole jew that needs to go.

[bobnjersey]

[Letterman is no Carson, he is a miserable ole jew that needs to go.]
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letterman's a jew?

[txlakeside]

You are racist at best ... ignorant at worst!

[FP1970]

Wasn't he just saying that comparing the Tea Party to terrorists was an insult to terrorists? He thinks terrorists are better than Americans who disagree with over-spending and says so openly---and now they do this to him!! What a bunch of ingrates!

[Okiefolks]

who cares what a buncha candyass arabs think?

[Okiefolks]

who cares what a buncha candyass arabs think?

[borysd]

Al-Basrawi is Jay Leno

[amerilatino]

Violent radical fundamentalism is, in all it's forms a combination of three things, 1. Social maladaptation, chauvinism and psychological dysfunction caused by persistent indoctrination and limitation of education. 2. Social, political or economic strife caused by factors external to the individual. 3. Spiritual and/or political leadership intent on blaming it's inadequacies on a conventionally accepted scapegoat, or "Devil". It hasn't just been Islamism that has historically fallen prey to this, either.

[dantom39]

OK with me.