Commentary About 40 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for Muslims to murder Salman Rushdie, the Indian author was finally attacked and nearly killed. Stabbed 10 times by a young Muslim living in America, Rushdie is in a hospital, where his prognosis as of this writing is partial paralysis and the loss…
A Reminder About the Moral Difference Between the Christian and Muslim Worlds at This Time
Home of Rushdie’s Alleged Attacker’s Father in Lebanon
Days after the attack against writer Salman Rushdie, an official who asked that his name not be mentioned, said Hassan Mattar, the father of Hadi Mattar lives in a small village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon. Matar has been refusing to speak to journalists since the stabbing happened adding that he is locking himself at…
John Robson: In Our Hearts We’re All Heroes, but in the Real World Speaking Up Takes Courage
Commentary Would you appear on a platform next to Salman Rushdie? Inside our heads, I suppose, we’re all heroes. We’d have been anti-Nazi in the 1930s, anti-Communist in the 1970s, anti-slavery in the 1850s, anti-Nero in ancient Rome, anti-Nazgul in Middle Earth, and so forth. But in the real world it takes commitment and courage…
Salman Rushdie Off Ventilator and Talking, ‘On the Road to Recovery,’ Agent Says
MAYVILLE, N.Y.—Salman Rushdie is “on the road to recovery,” his agent confirmed Sunday, two days after the author of “The Satanic Verses” suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in New York. The announcement followed news that the writer was removed from a ventilator Saturday and able to talk. Literary agent Andrew Wylie…
Police Investigating Death Threat to JK Rowling After Salman Rushdie Attack
British police said they are investigating a report of an online threat made to JK Rowling after she reacted to the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie in New York State. After the Harry Potter author said on Twitter she felt “very sick” after hearing the news of the stabbing and hoped Rushdie would “be OK,”…
Prosecutor: Stab Attack on Salman Rushdie Was ‘Preplanned’
MAYVILLE, N.Y.—The man accused in the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime, as the renowned author of “The Satanic Verses” remained hospitalized with serious injuries. An attorney for Hadi Matar entered the plea on his behalf during an…
Author Salman Rushdie Cannot Speak, on Ventilator After Stabbing in New York
Author Salman Rushdie, whose novel published in 1988 drew death threats from Iran’s leader and other Islamists, was on a ventilator and unable to speak late Friday, after he was stabbed just as he was to deliver a lecture in New York. “The news is not good,” Andrew Wylie, Rushdie’s book agent, said in an email….
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