Stabbed in the neck in accordance with Islamic law…..but the media won’t tell you that for fear of being ‘islamophobic.’
G-d help us.
Quran 47:4: So when you meet those who disbelieve, strike [their] necks until, when you have inflicted slaughter upon them……
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Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator, cannot speak, will likely lose an eye, his arm nerves are severed and his liver damaged: Cops raid New Jersey home of suspect, 24, ‘with sympathies toward Iranian government’ who stabbed author up to 15 times
Salman Rushdie, 75, was stabbed up to 15 times, including in the neck and in the abdomen
Rushdie’s agent Andrew Wylie provided an update on his condition shortly before 7 p.m. on Friday
Wylie said ‘the news is not good’ and that, ‘Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged’
Rushdie was attacked by Hadi Matar, 24, who rushed the stage before ‘punching and stabbing’ the author multiple times in front of horrified witnesses at a literary fair in Chautauqua, New York, near Buffalo
Rushdie wrote the Satanic Verses, which sparked in a culture war in 1988 in Britain, leading to deadly riots
The novelist was issued a fatwa by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in February 1989 and went into hiding for years
By Andrea Cavallier and Emma James For Dailymail.Com, 12 August 2022
Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator, cannot speak, and will likely lose an eye, after being stabbed up to 15 times on Friday by a suspect police have identified as a man from New Jersey ‘with sympathies toward the Iranian government.’
Authorities descended on the Fairview, New Jersey home of 24-year-old Hadi Matar hours after he allegedly attacked Rushdie onstage at a literary event in upstate New York.
The bloodied Rushdie, 75, who has been the subject of death threats from the Iranian regime since 1989, was airlifted to the hospital and his condition was updated by his agent Andrew Wylie shortly before 7 p.m.
‘The news is not good,’ Wylie said in a statement. ‘Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.’
Rushdie was attacked and stabbed multiple times, including in the neck and abdomen, as he was being introduced for the CHQ 2022 event in Chautauqua, near Buffalo, on Friday morning.
Matar, who police say gained access to the grounds with a pass, managed to walk off the stage before being restrained, as people rushed to assist Rushdie.
Law enforcement sources told The New York Post that an initial investigation suggests Matar is sympathetic to the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, although he was born around nine years after the fatwa against Rushdie was first issued.
Event moderator Henry Reese, 73, a co-founder of an organization that offers residencies to writers facing persecution, was also attacked. He and Rushdie were due to discuss the United States as a refuge for writers and other artists in exile.
Reese was released from a hospital on Friday afternoon and in an emailed statement to the New York Times, he called Rushdie ‘one of the great defenders of freedom of speech and freedom of creative expression,’ then added: ‘The fact that this attack could occur in the United States is indicative of the threats to writers from many governments and from many individuals and organizations.
Salman Rushdie, 75, was attacked by a Hadi Matar, pictured with Sheriff’s deputies, who approached him from behind before stabbing him multiple times. The suspect was quickly pinned to the floor before being arrestedSalman Rushdie, 75, was attacked by a Hadi Matar, pictured with Sheriff’s deputies, who approached him from behind before stabbing him multiple times. The suspect was quickly pinned to the floor before being arrested
A Homeland Security Investigations Police officer enters the building where Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker Hadi Matar, lives in Fairview, New JerseyA Homeland Security Investigations Police officer enters the building where Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker Hadi Matar, lives in Fairview, New Jersey
New Jersey Police officers stand guard near the building where alleged attacker Hadi Matar, lives in Fairview, New JerseyNew Jersey Police officers stand guard near the building where alleged attacker Hadi Matar, lives in Fairview, New Jersey
Residents look on as New Jersey Police officers search the building where Matar, lives in Fairview, New JerseyResidents look on as New Jersey Police officers search the building where Matar, lives in Fairview, New Jersey
Rushdie has previously received death threats for his writing, with his book the Satanic Verses sparking protests in 1988British-born Booker Prize winning author Sir Salman Rushdie (pictured in 2019) got death threats and was issued a fatwah by Iran for his 1988 novel, the Satanic Verses. He has lived in the U.S. since 2000 and was today preparing to give a lecture about America being a haven for writers in exile
Rushdie’s novel was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims in the 1980s, and at least 45 people were killed in riots over the book, leading to it being banned in Iran, where the late leader Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, calling for Rushdie’s death.
The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government-funded protection program, until he emerged after nine years of seclusion and cautiously resumed more public appearances, maintaining his outspoken criticism of religious extremism overall. He has been in the United States since 2000.
The attack occurred at the Chautauqua Institution, which hosts arts programs in a tranquil lakeside community 70 miles south of Buffalo.
Carl LeVan, an American University politics professor attending the event, told AFP he saw the suspect run onto the stage where Rushdie was seated and ‘stabbed him repeatedly and viciously.’
LeVan, a Chautauqua regular, said the suspect ‘was trying to stab him as many times as possible before he was subdued,’ adding that he believed the man ‘was trying to kill’ Rushdie.
‘There were gasps of horror and panic from the crowd,’ the professor said.
LeVan said witnessing the event had left him ‘shaken,’ adding he considered Chautauqua a safe place of creative freedom.
‘To know that this happened here, and to see it — it was horrific,’ he said. ‘What I saw today was the essence of intolerance.’