Hadi Matar, who is accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie, says he had only read 'a couple of pages' of the novel that prompted the fatwa against the author.
The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie has refused to say if he was inspired by the fatwa issued against the author, according to a New York Post interview.In 1989, Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the author's death
Hadi Matar also told the Post he had only "read a couple pages" of the novel that led to the fatwah, The Satanic Verses, and that a tweet announcing the author's visit to the Chautauqua Institution gave him the idea to go there. "I respect the Ayatollah. I think he's a great person. That's as far as I will say about that," Mr Matar said in a video interview from the Chautauqua County Jail."I don't like him very much," Mr Matar said of Rushdie.
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