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Date: August 12, 2022 12:03PM
Looks like somebody finally carried out the fatwa.
There's no dealing with religious fanatics.
They're beyond reason.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62524833https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/12/salman-rushdie-attacked-onstage-new-yorkAuthor Salman Rushdie has been attacked onstage at an event in New York state, according to the Associated Press.
Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked on Friday morning as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced.
The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
Photos taken by an Associated Press reporter show Rushdie lying on his back, with a first responder crouched over him.
Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous.
A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
A bounty of more than $3m has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment lingered.
In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8m to $3.3m.
Rushdie dismissed that threat at the time, saying there was “no evidence” of people being interested in the reward.
That year, Rushdie published a memoir, Joseph Anton, about the fatwa.
UPDATE:
Rushdie on ventilator and may lose an eye, agent says
Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator, unable to speak, and may lose an eye, his agent told Reuters and the New York Times.
“The news is not good,” Andrew Wylie, Rushdie’s agent, said Friday evening. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”
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