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    Salman Rushdie Stabbed and Seriously Injured During Speech in New York


    Author Salman Rushdie was stabbed during a speech in western New York on Friday morning and rushed to a hospital for treatment. Governor Kathy Hochul said at an afternoon event that he is alive and credited a state trooper with saving him.



    Rushdie was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua when a man rushed the stage and attacked him, the Associated Press reports. The assailant, who has not been identified, was subdued and detained by police. Rushdie was airlifted to a nearby hospital, according to a statement by state police that said the author had been stabbed in the neck.

    The attack began at approximately 10:45 a.m. as Rushdie and co-speaker Henry Reese were coming onto the stage of the amphitheater, according to eyewitness Charlie Savenor, who was seated about 50 feet away. “Within about 15 seconds, someone jumped onstage and began to pound Mr. Rushdie,” Savenor said. The assailant repeatedly struck the author. “I saw the arm go up and down.”

    The attacker “did not say anything,” Savenor added.

    Blood could be seen splattered behind the spot where Rushdie was attacked.



    Another witness told the New York Times that Rushdie had been stabbed multiple times:

    Quote Rita Landman, an endocrinologist who was in the audience and offered assistance, said that Mr. Rushdie had multiple stab wounds, including one to the right side of his neck, and that there was a pool of blood under his body. But she said he appeared to be alive and was not receiving CPR. “People were saying, ‘He has a pulse, he has a pulse he has a pulse,’” Ms. Landman said.

    "Rushdie was quickly surrounded by a small group of people who held up his legs, presumably to send more blood to his chest,” the AP reported, before he was taken to a hospital by helicopter. Reese suffered a minor head wound, according to police.

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    Default Re: Salman Rushdie Stabbed in the Neck During a Speech

    I have to wonder how this will affect US/UK relations with Iran. In 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini placed a fatwa calling on Muslims to murder Rushdie. The fatwa was lifted in 1998, but Rushdie has been extremely reclusive since that time - I guess he was not careful enough.

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    Default Re: Salman Rushdie Stabbed in the Neck During a Speech

    Quote Posted by Kryztian (here)
    I have to wonder how this will affect US/UK relations with Iran. In 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini placed a fatwa calling on Muslims to murder Rushdie. The fatwa was lifted in 1998, but Rushdie has been extremely reclusive since that time - I guess he was not careful enough.
    Am actually surprised he made it this far so far.

    He's still under the Fatwa and there's a 3.3 million $ bounty on him still.

    Quote On 24 September 1998, as a precondition to the restoration of diplomatic relations with Britain, the Iranian government, then headed by reformist Muhammad Khatami, gave a public commitment that it would "neither support nor hinder assassination operations on Rushdie". However, some in Iran have continued to reaffirm the death sentence.

    In early 2005, Khomeini's fatwa was reaffirmed by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message to Muslim pilgrims making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Additionally, the Revolutionary Guards have declared that the death sentence on him is still valid.

    Iran has rejected requests to withdraw the fatwa on the basis that only the person who issued it may withdraw it, with Ruhollah Khomeini having died in 1989.

    On 14 February 2006, the Iranian state news agency reported that the fatwa will remain in place permanently.

    In 2007, Salman Rushdie reported that he still receives a "sort of Valentine's card" from Iran each year on 14 February letting him know the country has not forgotten the vow to kill him. He was also quoted saying, "It's reached the point where it's a piece of rhetoric rather than a real threat"

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    Indeed must have slipped about his safety. Still strange though, it reminds me of Abe murder, there was security present as one can see in that 1st pic.
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    Here's an overview of the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie
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    Quote Salman Rushdie likely understood he would cause a controversy when he published a novel titled The Satanic Verses. The book mocked or at least contained mocking references to the Prophet Muhammad and other aspects of Islam, in addition to and a character clearly based on the Supreme Leader of Iran. On February 14, 1989, that Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued just about the strongest response possible, calling on "all brave Muslims" to kill Rushdie and his publishers.

    Although many of the most controversial things said about Islam and Muhammad in the book come from the mouths of disreputable or comic characters, it was undeniably critical and insulting. The title refers to passages said to have been removed from the Qur'an in which the Prophet spoke the words of Satan instead of God, and many were particularly incensed by the depiction of a brothel where the prostitutes shared the names of Muhammad's wives. Khomeini, who had suddenly deposed a U.S.-backed monarch a decade before, was the leader of a group of clerics who had turned Iran into a theocracy. As such, he was perhaps the most prominent Shi'a authority in the world. Muslims around the world had already condemned The Satanic Verses—it was publicly burnt in Bolton, UK, sparked a deadly riot in Pakistan and was banned entirely in multiple Muslim countries—but Khomeini's fatwa brought the controversy to new heights.
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    Default Re: Salman Rushdie Stabbed in the Neck During a Speech

    Is there any information about the identity of the assailant?
    Is there any indication that the attack was a form of abiding by the fatwa?

    As for the first question, how sure can we be that Salman Rushdie is not facing a Shirhan Shirhan situation?
    As for the second question, how sure can we be that we are not witnessing a psychologic operation to discredit the ”non-West”? Especially in the eyes of the so-called “intellectuals”?

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    Quote Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
    Is there any information about the identity of the assailant?
    Is there any indication that the attack was a form of abiding by the fatwa?

    As for the first question, how sure can we be that Salman Rushdie is not facing a Shirhan Shirhan situation?
    As for the second question, how sure can we be that we are not witnessing a psychologic operation to discredit the ”non-West”? Especially in the eyes of the so-called “intellectuals”?
    All of the above yes, they are very silent about it for now. Despite that, it's not strange we're mostly looking at the Fatwa thing, although right now down in Cuckooland, who knows right?

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    Tough old b*tard, 15 times stabbed at 75 and recovering.


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    Salman Rushdie’s agent provides update on writer’s health
    https://www.rt.com/news/565200-rushd...njuries-agent/
    The writer lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand in August, his representative has revealed

    Salman Rushdie has been left with no vision in one eye and one of his hands is incapacitated since the “brutal attack” on him in August, the writer’s literary agent Andrew Wylie has revealed in an interview with El Pais newspaper.

    The Indian-born British-American writer was stabbed on August 12 at an education center in New York state as he was preparing to give a lecture in front of a packed audience.

    Rushdie has been living under constant threat since 1989, when Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa calling for the writer’s death over his novel ‘The Satanic Verses’. The fatwa, which is still viewed by many as active, forced the writer to spend years in hiding with round-the-clock police protection.

    In an interview, published on Saturday, Wylie said Rushdie had around 15 wounds in his chest and torso, as well as “three serious wounds in his neck.”

    “One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut,” the literary agent said.

    He added that Rushdie had also “lost the sight of one eye” but emphasized that, most importantly, the author “is going to live.”

    Wylie refused to say whether Rushdie is still in the hospital, explaining that he cannot reveal his client’s whereabouts.

    The agent said the August incident had not come as a surprise either to him or Rushdie, as they had discussed the possibility of such an attack in the past.

    “The principal danger that he faced so many years after the fatwa was imposed is from a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking [him],” he explained, adding that it’s impossible to protect yourself from something “totally unexpected and illogical.”

    Soon after the attack, the writer’s son, Zafar Rushdie, said in a statement that his father’s injuries were “life-changing” and “severe,” but that his “defiant sense of humor remains intact.”

    A 24-year-old American of Lebanese origin, Hadi Matar, was charged with stabbing Rushdie. In a prison interview with the New York Post in August, he called the late Ayatollah Khomeini “a great person” but didn’t say if he had been following a fatwa. He also said he didn’t like Rushdie because, in his opinion, “he’s someone who attacked Islam.”

    Matar has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.

    Iran, which in 1998 made a public commitment to “neither support nor hinder assassination operations on Rushdie,” categorically denied any link to the New York attack on the writer. At the same time, the country’s Foreign Ministry said that “no one deserves to be blamed except Rushdie and his supporters” for the incident.

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