Late Show host David Letterman is the target of a death threat from an extremist website that is calling for his assassination.
According to the SITE Intelligence Group, a watchdog site that tracks terrorist websites, there has been a call for Muslims to kill the CBS host.
Website Shumukh-al-Islam published this call to action,”Cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever.” The site claims that Letterman must be punished after making jokes about Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri, who was killed in June during the U.S. strike in Pakistan.
The rant continued, “He showed his evil nature and deep hatred for Islam and Muslims, and said that Ilyas Kashmiri was killed and he joined bin Laden. We ask Allah to paralyze his tongue and grant the sincere monotheists his neck.”
The jihadist threat to Letterman have been turned over to the FBI and the high-profile entertainer has been advised to take “as much precaution as he would with an obsessed fan.”
Letterman, 64, who for the record is not Jewish, is currently on hiatus and has had no comment on the subject.
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