According to sources 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 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 shumukh al-slam 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 5th, tjat drone strile in Pakistan had killed al qaida leader lyas Kashmiri.
It was written that David 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.
Muslim extremist groups in the past few months have increased calls for people to take violent action against certain targets in the west. The concern is that someone who will read it, agree with is and say I want to be the one and kill David Letterman. The FBI also looking into the threat said Jim Margolin spoke for the bureau that they take every threat seriously. Letterman has been the target of criminal threats in the past. A former CBS news producer was jailed for trying to extort money from Letterman. A formaer painer at Letterman’s ranch in Montana was jailed following a plot to kidnap the television host’s son.
Everything is being done as scheduled. Those involved know the rules and the restrictions and what has to be done. Even the smallest threats are taken seriously as stated above. However there are those individuals who feel as though Letterman was wrong to do what he did, it just angers Muslims more to the point of more threats to Americans.
