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Shumukh-al-Islam target David Letterman in credible threat (VIDEO)

By April MacIntyre Aug 18, 2011, 0:56 GMT

The Shumukh-al-Islam website, often considered to be Al Qaeda’s mouth piece, has targeted David Letterman as their next victim.

The group was tossed off GoDaddy.com's servers earlier this year for terror threats and also targeted Canadian Coptic Christians, predominantly Egyptian-Canadians, who have been vocal about their opposition to Islam.

Now David Letterman was the target of a death threat from these same people.

According to David Bauder of the Associated Press, the poster on the renegade Islamic site identified himself as Umar al-Basrawim who reacted 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 Defence League founder Meir Kahane.

Letterman is not Jewish.

"He showed his evil nature and deep hatred for Islam and Muslims, and said that Ilyas Kashmiri was killed and he joined bin Laden," the poster, identified as Umar al-Basrawi, wrote on the site. "We ask Allah to paralyze his tongue and grant the sincere monotheists his neck."