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CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Author Salman Rushdie, whose writing led to death threats, has been attacked on stage at an event in western New York.


10:07 AM · Aug 12, 2022

Author Salman Rushdie, whose writing led to death threats, has been attacked on stage at an event in western New York
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CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Author Salman Rushdie, whose writing led to death threats, has been attacked on stage at an event in western New York.


Author Salman Rushdie, whose writing led to death threats, has been attacked on stage at an event in western New York

Author Salman Rushdie, whose writing led to death threats, has been attacked on stage at an event in western New York.
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Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death...
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Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press
Aug. 12, 2022Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 10:21 a.m.

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Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo.
1of3Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo.Joshua Goodman/AP
FILE - Author Salman Rushdie appears at a signing for his book Home in London on June 6, 2017. Rushdie was attacked while giving a lecture in western New York. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage Friday at the Chautauqua Institution as Rushdie was being introduced. (Photo by Grant Pollard/Invision/AP, File)




CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday 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.


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 over $3 million 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 $2.8 million to $3.3 million.

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.
 
Melodi

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This is "personal" for Iran and some of their fanatics and they don't give up - former President Bush is likely in their sights as well. I am glad he will recover, I used to keep copies of his books simply because any good author who believes in free speech should celebrate their being published in a free country.

I found them almost unreadable, but that's not the point; when Nightwolf saw them on my bookshelf after the second date, he knew it was another reason to believe he had found the right life partner.

Most westerners just don't understand that sort of "personal vengeance" that doesn't care that President Bush the Elder was "out of office" when they tried to blow up his helicopter. They wanted HIM, not his office and they don't like his son much either.
 
drafter

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Too much allah snackbar gives the whole world an upset stomach. Still can’t believe we’ve willfully imported tens of thousands of these terrorists since 9/11.
 
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He looks like he stood out a mile with that camo t-shirt and closely cropped hair. Gonna be fun to hear when they find out he was attached to some military regime. I mean he seriously stood out compared to all of the rest of the crowd of people. Somebody was NOT doing their job ... or maybe it is that somebody was.
 
Dobbin

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drafter said:
Too much allah snackbar gives the whole world an upset stomach. Still can’t believe we’ve willfully imported tens of thousands of these terrorists since 9/11.
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Take comfort in the fact that "lists" of these are being kept - so they can be released from prison later without charges.

Those "military aged young men" all need your employment too.

Dobbin
 
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This clearly proves Americas enemies are already here. While our idiotic government wages wars with cartels, gangs, and terrorists in other countries they were allowing them into ours through open borders and an immigration system that puts those who hate America and its values ahead of people who want to become productive members of our society and embrace our values and heritage.
 
Griz3752

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IIRC, Fatwas are 'open' until the condemned is 'dealt with' but not being Muslim, I can't say for sure.

And yes Ms Kathy, the image I saw certainly looked like a military/paramilitary type: close cropped hair, fit looking and a determined-looking face. To me he looked for all the world like a man who knew the consequences for failing in his mission execution, even if he's just a sleeper.
 
Melodi

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sniped from a really long UK Daily Mail article but I thought this was useful information - I had no idea...
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Salman Rushdie is stabbed ahead of speech in New York

Author Salman Rushdie has been injured after being stabbed in New York. Police have named his attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, who was arrested after the attack in Chautauqua, upstate New York.
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[Murders and attempted murders related to the Fatwa]
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Hitoshi Igarashi, who translated The Satanic Verses into Japanese for Rushdie, was stabbed to death on the campus where he taught literature.

Ettore Capriolo, the Italian translator of the book, was knifed in his apartment in Milan.

The novel’s Norwegian publisher William Nygaard, was shot three times outside his home and left for dead in October 1993, but survived the attack.

In Turkey, the book’s translator, Aziz Nesin, was the target of an arson attack on a hotel that killed 37.

Rushdie previously wrote a 655-page fatwa memoir, which was nominated for the UK’s top non- fiction award, the Samuel Johnson prize.

During the fatwa he lived in permanent terror and at one point thought his ex-wife Clarissa Luard and their son Zafar, who was nine at the time, had been killed by assassins or kidnapped.

In 1998 Iran’s reformist president relaxed the fatwa and said it had no intention of tracking Rushdie down and killing him.
Technically it still stands but is unlikely to be enforced.
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Dennis Olson

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Kathy in FL said:
He looks like he stood out a mile with that camo t-shirt and closely cropped hair. Gonna be fun to hear when they find out he was attached to some military regime. I mean he seriously stood out compared to all of the rest of the crowd of people. Somebody was NOT doing their job ... or maybe it is that somebody was.
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Wait for it……..























He was on our radar™
 
Red Baron

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The MSM so often just has to fall victim to hyperbole in what it thinks is it's sacred job is to "inform" us.

Since when has Salman Rushdie ever been a "literary giant", as Sky News just blathered on about in one of their reports?
 
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Melodi

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Red Baron said:
The MSM so often just has to fall victim to hyperbole in what it thinks is it's sacred job is to "inform" us.

Since when has Salman Rushdie ever been a "literary giant", as Sky News just blathered on about in one of their reports?
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He won all sorts of awards in Europe and the UK, the USA is not the only market.
 
Kathy in FL

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mzkitty said:
A muzzie never forgets. Remember that. It could be 1,500 years, but a muzzie never forgets.

:dvl2:
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If you think pizzing off a Muslim male is bad, try getting on the bad side of a muslim female. (1)They are raised to believe they don't really have a soul, like a male does; (2) They are taught they are going to hell, at least for a little while until they've done enough penance for being female and all the sins of being female; (3) then and only then will they maybe be moved to heaven to serve out eternity as one of a freakton of brides to a single muslim male.

A truly muslim female believes they have nothing to lose, nothing to live for, and nothing to eternally strive for.
 
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NJ man, Hadi Matar, with sympathies toward Iranian government ID’d as suspect in Salman Rushdie stabbing

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NJ man, Hadi Matar, with sympathies toward Iranian government ID’d as suspect in Salman Rushdie stabbing
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A New Jersey man with sympathies towards the Iranian authorities was arrested and accused of stabbing famed novelist Salman Rushdie on Friday, in keeping with legislation enforcement sources briefed on the investigation.
Hadi Matar, 24, was arrested after he stormed the stage on the Chautauqua Establishment in Western New York and allegedly stabbed the creator within the neck.
Sources informed The Put up that an preliminary investigation suggests Hadi is sympathetic to the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
Creator and social commentator Salman Rushdie was attacked at an occasion in New York.AP Photograph/Rogelio V. SolisRegulation enforcement stand watch outdoors on the Chautauqua Establishment.AP Photograph/Joshua Goodman
Rushdie, 75, was stabbed forward of a deliberate speak about “the USA as [an] asylum for writers and different artists in exile and as a house for freedom of artistic expression,” in keeping with the establishment’s web site.
 
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