New York, NY – Al Qaeda Threatens to Cut David Letterman’s Tongue Out

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    (FILE) Television talk show host David Letterman is seen at an event in New York, New York, USA, on 24 August 2009.  EPANew York, NY – 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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    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-Qaida leader Ilyas Kashmiri.

    Al-Basrawi wrote that Letterman had made reference to both Osama bin Laden and Kashmiri and said that Letterman had “put his hand on his neck and demonstrated the way of slaughter.”

    “Is there not among you a Sayyid Nosair al-Mairi … to cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever?” Al-Basrawi wrote, referring to El Sayyid Nosair, who was convicted of the 1990 killing of Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane. Letterman is not Jewish.

    Al-Basrawi, which is likely to be an alias, has made some 1,200 postings to the Muslim website, said Adam Raisman, an analyst for the Site Monitoring Service. The private firm, part of the Site Intelligence Group, provides information to government and commercial clients on what jihadists are saying on the Internet and traditional media. Raisman said the online forum is often used by al-Qaida.

    Muslim extremist groups in the past few months have increased calls for people to take violent action against certain targets in the West, he said.

    “The concern is that there is someone who will read it, agree with it and say, ‘I want to be the Sayyid Nosair of 2011 and kill David Letterman,'” Raisman said.

    The FBI is also looking into the threat, said Jim Margolin, spokesman for the bureau’s New York office. “We take every potential threat seriously,” he said.

    Neither CBS nor a Letterman spokesman, Tom Keaney, would comment on the threat. CBS would not make available a transcript of Letterman’s monologue on the killing of Kashmiri.

    Letterman has been the target of criminal threats in the past. A former CBS News producer was jailed for trying to extort $2 million from Letterman in 2009 by threatening to expose the host’s sexual dalliances with members of his staff. A former painter at Letterman’s ranch in Montana was jailed following a 2005 plot to kidnap the TV funnyman’s nanny and son.

    A radical Muslim group last year warned the creators of “South Park” that they could face violent retribution for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit on the Comedy Central cartoon. Author Salman Rushdie spent years in hiding after Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged he be killed for blasphemy after writing the book “The Satanic Verses.”

    Filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on an Amsterdam street in 2004 by a Dutch Muslim angered by his film “Submission,” a fictional study of abused Muslim women.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I’m not a big Letterman fan but perhaps this guy is simply a setup by Jay Leno’s producers. Both of them tend to be fairly agressive in their “muslim-humor” and stereotyping of terrorists. Last night’s top ten was a parody of an executive recruiting firm’s search criteria for a sucessor to UBL.

    Tzi_Bar_David
    Tzi_Bar_David
    12 years ago

    David Letterman is Protestant.

    cliftonbochur
    cliftonbochur
    12 years ago

    PLEASE DON’T!!!
    He is the funniest guy I ever heard

    UseYourHead
    UseYourHead
    12 years ago

    Um….he is not even Jewish……

    12 years ago

    These muslims shouldn’t get to excited, there are 1 billion more muslim tounges than jewish tounges…!

    Paulie123
    Paulie123
    12 years ago

    maybe it wouldnt be such a bad idea to shut the moron up forever

    5TResident
    Noble Member
    5TResident
    12 years ago

    These moron Arabs think everyone who doesn’t like them is Jewish. They are ignorant imbeciles and everyone knows it.

    wisconsinyid
    wisconsinyid
    12 years ago

    These extremist disgust me. Can’t take a joke, tough guy?

    12 years ago

    How about crazy gluing his mouth shut.

    shimonyehuda
    shimonyehuda
    12 years ago

    letterman was raised presbeterian though his mother does look a yiddishe bobbie from queens