Stupid Vermin Tricks: Muslim Fanatic Threats Letterman Over Joke

On June 5th, Letterman made some kind of joke about a drone strike which killed an Islmaist leader in Pakistan. (Note it wasn't bin Ladin.)

Now comes the threat.

It's not really a threat so much as an impotent zealot calling for violence.

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.

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.

CBS isn't releasing the transcript of the June 5 show, so we can know the joke, and oddly, I don't see it on the internet, although in theory at least a million people saw it.

And... Speaking of vermin who enjoy political terrorism, two men arrested for harassing Palin and her family.

posted by Ace at 12:24 PM

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