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2022-08-16 Home Front: WoT
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Accused attacker of Rushdie ‘changed’ by 2018 Lebanon trip, says mother
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[IsraelTimes] The accused attacker of British author Salman Rushdie was transformed by a trip to Lebanon Hezbollahstan
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in 2018, when he became more religious and less outgoing, his mother says.
Lebanese-born Silvana Fardos, of Fairview, New Jersey, describes her 24-year-old son Hadi Matar as "a moody introvert," increasingly fixated with Islam after the visit to see his estranged father.
"One time, he argued with me, asking why I encouraged him to get an education instead of focusing on religion," she told Britannia’s Daily Mail newspaper, according to a report on its website.
"He was angry that I did not introduce him to Islam from a young age," she said in an interview published online last night.
Matar was arrested at the scene of the attack on Rushdie, 75, at a literary event in upstate New York on Friday.
He pleaded not guilty
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the following day to charges of attempted murder and assault with a weapon, and is being held without bail.
Prosecutors have described a planned, premeditated assault on Rushdie, who was stabbed approximately 10 times.
Police have provided no information about the suspect’s background or his possible motive.
Fardos said she was "shell-shocked" to receive a call from one of her twin 14-year-old daughters telling her that the FBI
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was at the family’s home and her son was allegedly responsible.
"I just cannot believe he was capable of doing something like this. He was very quiet. Everyone loved him," she said.
Her son "changed a lot" after his trip to Lebanon, she said. Matar’s father moved backed to Lebanon after the two divorced.
"I was expecting him to come back motivated, to complete school, to get his degree and a job, but instead he locked himself in the basement," she said.
"I couldn’t tell you much about his life after that because he has isolated me since 2018," and also said little to the rest of his family for months.
Matar’s family hails from the southern Lebanese village, where support is strong for the Iran-backed  Hezbollah terror group. The mayor told Rooters that Matar stayed in a building in Yaroun while visiting Lebanon.
Minutes before he was stabbed, Rushdie had agreed to be traveling envoy for endangered writers
[IsraelTimes] Shortly before he was stabbed at an event in New York on Friday, author Salman Rushdie had agreed to serve as a traveling envoy advocating for fellow writers in peril, according to the co-founder of group that offers refuge to exiled scribes.
"I asked Salman would he be willing to travel to promote the idea of cities of asylum and grow them in the US," Ralph Henry Reese of the Pittsburgh-based City of Asylum tells the Guardian. "He signed up."
Henry Reese was moderating the event, and was also injured in the attack.
He says Rushdie was in very good spirits prior to going onstage in and that the two were looking forward to further talking about exile for writers in danger. "We go out minutes later on stage," Reese says. "He wanted to talk about welcoming writers in exile into communities and how positive that is for everyone."
Then came the attack, in which Rushdie was stabbed multiple times and left seriously injured. "It was a tragic irony in so many ways," Reese says. "The horror of it, all the layering of the realities."
"Here was Rushdie who had lived this already, who was speaking so courageously for many years, who was about to talk about his experiences and the value of protecting writers, and now we have this extraordinary materialization happening right on stage. It was so resonant of why we need to defend precisely those values," he adds. 
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