Jihadist Website Threatened David Letterman [VIDEO]

The FBI is investigating a threat made against David Letterman on a popular Internet website for radical Muslims.

A contributor to the Shumuka al-Islam forum, a jihadist website, issued the threat because of a joke the Letterman made on his CBS program ‘The Late Show With David Letterman.’ The contributor, Umar al-Basrawi, urged readers to “cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever.” Letterman is Presbyterian.

Neither CBS nor a Letterman spokesman could be reached for comment on the threat. CBS would not make available Letterman’s June 8 monologue, in which he mocked the death of Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda leader and successor to Osama bin Laden. Charles Strozier, director of the Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told amNew York that Letterman should take any warnings seriously.

“It could be a total hoax, and it probably is, but in this world of mass communication, something that seems frivolous can intensify if it gets picked up by the wrong people,” Strozier said.

[Associated Press]