David Letterman Receives Death Threat from Jihadists
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No laughing matter.
David Letterman is the subject of a death threat posted on a jihadist website popular with members and supporters of Al-Qaeda, Entertainment Weekly reports.
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A commenter named Umar al-Basrawi commanded on the site to "cut the tongue of this lowly jew and shut it forever."
The site, called Shumukh-al-Islam is a "clearing house for Al-Qaeda material. It gets the most Al-Qaeda supporters," Adam Raisman, an expert in extremist websites, told EW. Letterman (who is Protestant, not Jewish) apparently offended some with remarks he made on-air about accused terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri, who died in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan this past June.
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"He showed his evil nature and deep hatred for Islam and Muslims, and said that Ilyas Kashmiri was killed and he joined bin Laden," commenter al-Basrawi wrote. "We ask Allah to paralyze his tongue and grant the sincere monotheists his neck."
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CBS had no comment. Raisman urged Letterman to use "as much precaution as he would with an obsessed fan" regarding the scary threat.
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BTW- they want your head cut off. Just remember that as you sit around your campfire singing Kum ba yah.
Sarah- you are really dumb. Islam is not peaceful if they go by the Quran. I have no desire to study it.
Terrorism is everywhere from the acts of al-qaeda to the non-sense war america leads against iraq and other countries . Islam is very peaceful and those who say otherwise never really took time to study about it .
He isnt the only one who makes fun of them.Are others being threatened too?
Maybe David Letterman will keep his big mouth shut now Its not funny any more attacking People!!!!!!
They're all idiots. Islam is not peaceful and you can't convince me otherwise. Show me a muslim that will publicly come on TV and say that 9/11 was wrong and then maybe I'll start to believe that it's somewhat peaceful.
another idle threat from the murdering cowards that hide behind their women and childred.their leaders prey on their stupid people to do what they have no guts to do. they promise vergins in heaven as a reward to murder innocent people.how stupid do you have to be to believe god would reward murderers of innocent people and reward them with the inticment of sex.