Not Funny: Extremist Calls For David Letterman’s Death On Jihadist Forum

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.”

“Is there not among you,” he added, “a Sayyid Nosair al-Mairi … to cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever?” Nosair was convicted of killing of Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane. Letterman, it should be noted, is not Jewish.

The FBI is looking into the threat. CBS has not commented on the threat or whether any additional security precautions are being taken, nor has it released the transcript of the episode to which a-Basrawi was referring.

h/t FoxNews.com

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