...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....have been celebrating the callous attack on Salman Rushdie, which saw the author stabbed up to 15 times — including once in the neck.
Rushdie, 75, was attacked by Hadi Matar, 24, as he was being introduced to the stage for the CHQ 2022 event in Chautauqua, near Buffalo in upstate New York, on Friday morning. He was airlifted to hospital and undergoing surgery in Erie, Pennsylvania.
He was issued a fatwa — a death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
- in 1989 by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini after his book, the Satanic Verses, sparked and outcry with Moslems in Britannia.
The book supposedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed and The Koran, with Khomeini calling for Rushdie's death, and also called for Moslems to point him out to those who could kill him if they could not themselves.
Salman Rushdie on a ventilator, likely to lose an eye after on-stage attack
[NYPOST] Author Salman Rushdie is likely to lose one of his eyes and is currently on a ventilator after he was attacked on stage at a literary event in upstate New York on Friday, a report said
"The news is not good," the 75-year-old writer’s agent, Andrew Wylie, told The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
"Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," said Wylie.
Rushdie, who is still unable to speak, was attacked by a lone man while speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY, about 55 miles south of Buffalo.
He was scheduled to speak about the United States as a place for exiled authors "as a home for freedom of expression," according to the institute. After the stabbing, he was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he underwent surgery.
A witness who was in the audience told The Post that Rushdie tried to run off the stage, and the two men scuffled before audience members rushed onstage to subdue the attacker.
Approximately 2,500 people were in the audience at the time.
Rushdie’s alleged attacker, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, was arrested at the scene by a state trooper who was assigned to the lecture..