NEWSDavid Letterman Target of Threat on Jihadist Website Urging to "Cut Tongue" of Host
Aug. 18 2011, Published 5:28 a.m. ET
David Letterman is back in headlines, and this time his safety may be in jeopardy. The FBI is investigating a threat made against the late night talk show host, after a commenter on an online forum for radical Muslims posted a comment urging others to "cut the tongue" of the comedian because of a joke he made on Late Night about Osama Bin Laden.
The comment was written on Tuesday by a person identified as "Umar al-Basrawi," which is believed to be an alias.
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The poster told users of the Shumuka al-Islam forum to punish the host for a joke about dead al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ilyas Kashmiri which he made on his CBS show June 8, Radar Online reports.
Al-Basrawi wrote that Letterman had "put his hand on his neck and demonstrated the way of slaughter," then threatening, "Is there not among you a Sayyid Nosair al-Mairi ... to cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever?"
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Letterman is not Jewish, but Presbyterian. He has yet to comment on the threats.
