Suspect had a ticket for Chautauqua event but some say protections should have been enhanced given sensitivies
the bloody attack on Salman Rushdie
The novelist was stabbed several times including in the neck and abdomen. His agent Andrew Wylie said his liver had been damaged and that he was likely to lose an eye, and he remained hospitalized on Saturday. “There was screening to prevent attendees from bringing in a cup of coffee,” Susko said. He added that “maybe screening for weapons” with wand or walk-through metal detectors “would have been more helpful”.
Hours after the attack, the institution’s president, Michael Hill, said the site had seen nothing like it in almost 150 years of existence. Audibly shaken, he said: “We were founded to bring people together in community, to learn and in doing so to create solutions, to develop empathy and to take on intractable problems. Today, we are called to take on fear and the worst of all human traits: hate.
Rushdie has been under a fatwa calling for his death since 1989, when the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued it in response to his book The Satanic Verses, which was castigated as blasphemous. The governor of New York state, Kathy Hochul, praised the trooper for his actions. “It was a state police officer who stood up and saved his life, protected him as well as the moderator who was attacked,” she said.
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