Salman Rushdie remains in surgery after he was stabbed onstage at a lecture in New York state. Police have arrested a 24-year-old man over the attack
Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to a hospital, police said.Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture.
Rushdie, who was born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in Bombay, now known as Mumbai, before moving to the United Kingdom, has faced death threats for his fourth novel,, which some Muslims said contained blasphemous passages. The novel was banned in many countries with large Muslim populations upon its 1988 publication.
Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency and other news outlets donated money in 2016 to increase the bounty by $US600,000 . Fars called Rushdie an apostate who “insulted the prophet” in its report on Friday’s attack. Rushdie was at the institution in western New York for a discussion about the United States giving asylum to writers and artists in exile and “as a home for freedom of creative expression,” according to the institution’s website.
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