New York police have identified the suspect who attacked and stabbed Salman Rushdie in the neck - the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s. 9News
CNN has reported the man suspected of perpetrating the attack is Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey.Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a hospital, police said. His condition was not immediately known
"At first you're like, 'What's going on?' And then it became abundantly clear in a few seconds that he was being beaten," Savenor said.Another spectator, Kathleen Jones, said the attacker was dressed in black, with a black mask. A bloodied Rushdie was quickly surrounded by a small group of people who held up his legs, presumably to send more blood to his chest.
"Salman Rushdie has been targeted for his words for decades but has never flinched nor faltered," she added.was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims, who saw a character as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, among other objections. The novel was banned in Iran, where the late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie's death.Iran's current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has never issued a fatwa of his own withdrawing the edict, though Iran in recent years hasn't focused on the writer.
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