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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."
Around 2000, Rushdie moved to New York, and spent years doing hundreds of literary events and book tours. And then came the attack in 2022, which lasted just 27 seconds but left Rushdie severely ...
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 ...
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAuthor Salman Rushdie was brutally stabbed on Friday prior to a lecture in New York state in front of a crowd of horrified onlookers.The ...
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 Rushdie's death ...
The lawyer for the New Jersey man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie is in talks with county and federal prosecutors to try to resolve existing charges of attempted murder without a trial ...
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 is on a ventilator and may lose an eye after he was stabbed on stage in New York state. The 75-year-old Indian-born British author sustained nerve damage to his arm and damage ...