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Top Ten Reasons Radical Jihadis shouldn’t have Threatened David Letterman

Juan Cole 08/18/2011

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Top Ten Reasons Radical Jihadis shouldn’t have Threatened David Letterman

10. David is The Man

9. You really don’t want David relentlessly making fun of you in revenge; ask Madonna.

8. David has survived that thing on his head for years, he can survive some fool wearing pajamas using his mother’s computer to threaten comedians

7. When you are already a loser laughingstock terrorist, you only make yourself look worse by being a touchy terrorist

6. You are giving away that the most effective way to deal with a handful of fanatic fundamentalists trying to hijack Islam is to ridicule them

5. Kind of underlines that you are irrelevant as a terrorist organization when your major target is no longer the Pentagon but rather the host of “Is it Anything?”

4. David is friends with Bruce Willis, who likes to blow things up for no reason

3. You’re kind of giving away that you’re a Leno fan, and after what he did to Conan, that can’t help your reputation in radical circles.

2. You might as well forget about ever being flashed by Drew Barrymore

1. David has entertained the Navy SEALS in Afghanistan, and you really don’t want to get on their list … ooops, it may be too late…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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