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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York was motivated by a Hezbollah leader's endorsement of a fatwa calling for ...
Author Salman Rushdie, behind screen left, is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y. (Joshua Goodman/)
On the day of the attack, Islamic studies expert Kylie Moore-Gilbert wrote: "More than 30 years and a $3 million bounty later, Khomeini's poisonous fatwa has finally caught up with Salman Rushdie. A black day for freedoms of speech, expression, religion & conscience. A tragic day for literature."
A man has been taken into custody after Sir Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage in New York state. The 75-year-old Indian-born British author, whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the ...
Author Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage at an event in western New York on Friday morning. According to police, Rushdie suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck and was transported by ...
Rushdie detailed the attack and his long and painful recovery in a memoir published in April. The author spent years in hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa, or edict, in 1989 calling for Rushdie's death over his novel “The Satanic Verses.” Khomeini considered the book blasphemous.
Sir Salman Rushdie has laid bare his horror at lying in “a spectacular quantity of blood” after the frenzied onstage attack that very nearly claimed his life two years ago.. The British-Indian ...
Victory City is a novel by Salman Rushdie published in February 2023. It is Rushdie's fifteenth novel. ... The novel was finished before Rushdie was attacked. [2] [3 ...