Salman Rushdie who Receive death Threats in 80s over His book “The Satanic Verses” was attacked during a lecture in New York on Friday.
An Associated Press (AP) reporter witnessed a man break into the podium at the Chautauqua Foundation and begin You or Rushdie stabbed while introducing it. The author was taken or fell on the floor, and the man was tied up.
New York State Police said Rushdie was stabbed in the neck when he was attacked on Adding that the case of the British writer was not known and the suspect was arrested.
A suspect man ran up On the stage, they attacked Rushdie and his interlocutors. Rushdie sustained an obvious wound to his neck and was taken by helicopter to A area hospital. Police said his condition is not yet known. in a permit.
Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ banned in Iran since 1988 as many Muslims consider it infidels. a year Later, the late Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or fatwa, in which he called for Rushdie death.
Reward of over 3 million dollars also offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
Iran government He had long distanced himself from Khomeini’s edict, but anti-Rushdie sentiment remained. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation Reward raised for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.
Rushdie denied the threat at the time, saying “there is no evidence” of people to be interested in The reward.
Which year Rushdie published Joseph Anton’s memoirs about the fatwa.
