A contributor to jihadist online forum “shumukh al-Islam” has called on Muslims to attack and “cut the tongue” of CBS’ Late Show host David Letterman over comments he had made on his show. The Site Monitoring Service, a private firm which, as you may have gathered, monitors online activity, announced that the threat was made on Tuesday

The contributor in question, who goes by the name Umar al-Basrawi on the forum, was reacting to Letterman’s references to former terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and former Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri, both of whom were killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan. Al-Basrawi wrote that Letterman had “put his hand on his neck and demonstrated the way of slaughter.”

Conservative author Ann Coulter has a new book coming out soon called Demonic and in case anyone needs a reminder of her take-no-prisoners approach to political commentary, she appeared last night on Fox Business to try and lay to rest another allegation about President Obama. Coulter wanted people to know that Obama is not a Muslim, no, she said “I think, like all liberals, he’s an atheist.”

So it’s not all about the president’s birth certificate after all. It’s also the Koran. In an interview with CBN, Donald Trump reveals there’s a bit of a religious scholar under all that wonderful hair. Discussing the Muslim holy book, Trump says “The Koran is very interesting. A lot of people say it teaches love and there is a very big group of people who really understand the Koran far better than I do. I’m certainly not an expert to put it mildly, but there’s something there that teaches some very negative vibe.”

On last night’s episode of Hannity, host Sean Hannity covered Lara Logan’s attack in Egypt, bringing on conservative pundit and writer Michelle Malkin to weigh in. In describing Logan’s attack, Hannity mentioned a detail from The New York Post that hasn’t been widely reported, not to our knowledge anyway: That Logan’s attackers cried “Jew! Jew!” until she was eventually rescued by a group of women and members of the Egyptian military.

Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner appeared on Meet the Press with David Gregory and dismissed the idea that it was somehow his responsibility to stand up to the “ignorance” of some Americans still believing President Obama is a Muslim. Gregory questioned why as Speaker he doesn’t attempt to eliminate such misinformation, yet Boehner did not see that as his role.

On The Last Word tonight, Lawrence O’Donnell tackled Bill O’Reilly‘s “non history-marking, non news-making” (So… why report on it for a… news… network?) interview with President Barack Obama, specifically that he asked Obama about the Muslim Brotherhood.

O’Donnell interviewed Steve King about comments he’d made about Obama’s religion and upbringing.

Today on Hardball Chris Matthews was less excited than he has been recently, yet this more subdued tone actually enabled him to conduct a more enlightening conversation. With Tea Party guests Phillip Dennis of the Texas Tea Party and Matt Kibbe from FreedomWorks, Matthews explored his fascination with the fact that so many Republicans still believe President Obama is a Muslim.

More than two years of President Obama being in power, a good number of Americans have no idea what his religious background is– a plurality admitting they have no idea, while an alarming number suggesting he is Muslim. This despite the President discussing his religion publicly and make clear that he is a Christian. Even this latter action, however, seems to be irking some conservatives, like Charles Krauthammer, who considered his recent trips to church “ostentatious” and “somewhat distasteful.”

New York congressman Peter King was on Laura Ingraham‘s radio show Thursday, and he was asked by Ingraham how the political aftermath would’ve played out had the suspected shooter in Arizona been a Muslim.

Ingraham asked, “If Jared Lougner happened to have been one of the more radicalized Muslims who had carried out attacks or attempted attacks on American soil…how do you think this would have played out, similarly or different?”

The internet is a powerful thing. So concludes President Barack Obama in an extensive sit-down interview for ABC with Barbara Walters, who ventures to ask the President (and the First Lady) where the rumors the President is Muslim generate their strength. While he declined to lay blame or assign motive, President Obama asserted, once again, that the rumors are untrue and that both he and his family benefit from their lives as Christians.

Put yourself in the shoes of a cable news host. So you’ve got a very nice Muslim woman as your guest, and you’re about to start your interview about the “junk touching” craze sweeping the nation’s airports. How do you begin?

Filling in for Bill O’Reilly Thursday night, Laura Ingraham got right to the cringeworthy heart of the matter:

When one door closes, another door opens. It’s been less than a day since Juan Williams was fired by NPR, yet he’s already signed a new three-year, multi-million-dollar contract with Fox News, one that greatly expands his role there. His new home at the cable news network is a long way from the publicly broadcast NPR, but FNC Chief Roger Ailes thinks he’ll do fine. Said Ailes, “He’s an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis.”

Though The New Republic is a magazine that generally leans left-of-center, its Editor-in-Chief, Martin Peretz, doesn’t always agree with the generally liberal New York Times. On September 4, Peretz wrote a blog post that questioned a Times editorial, which had expressed dismay at many Americans’ “sadly wary misunderstanding of Muslim-Americans.”

Today marks the auspicious launch of Tucker Carlson‘s The Daily Caller, and in light of Carlson’s insistence that they’re not out “to grind any axes,” I was a little bit surprised by a front page story that said of the Underwear Bomber “he was ‘singing like a canary’ until the Obama administration read him his rights.” I wanted to double-check the facts on that, but when I asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about The Daily Caller, he said “What’s that?”

“We have to use profiling. And I mean be very serious and harsh about the profiling,” said retired Lt. General Tom McInerney of the U.S. Air Force, suggesting that the United States adopt the profiling guidelines of Israel in order to protect ourselves from an airline attack. “If you are an 18 to 28-year-old Muslim man then you should be strip searched,” he said. If we don’t do that, we’re going to lose an airliner, he explained.

Anderson Cooper got hoorahs for “doing his homework” and “destroying” Mark Williams, during their interview yesterday. Until recently, Williams was a relatively unknown radio host and FNC regular until he became a national leader of the “Tea Party” movement – the organized protests of Obama’s healthcare reform. And while Cooper challenged Williams about some of his untrue accusations, he may have also given credence to their racist underpinnings.