Update after the attack on Rushdie, author of the Satanic Verses, on August 12.

Salman Rushdie’s agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack from a man who rushed the stage at an August literary event in western New York, according to a published report.

Literary agent Andrew Wylie told the Spanish language newspaper El Pais in an article published Saturday that Rushdie suffered three serious wounds to his neck and 15 more wounds to his chest and torso in the attack that took away sight in an eye and left a hand incapacitated.

Rushdie, 75, spent years in hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his death after publication of his novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Over the past two decades, Rushdie has traveled freely.

Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, has been incarcerated after pleading not guilty to attempted murder and assault in the Aug. 12 attack on Rushdie as he was being introduced at the Chautauqua Institution, a rurally located center 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Buffalo that is known for its summertime lecture series.

After the attack, Rushdie was treated at a Pennsylvania hospital, where he was briefly put on a ventilator to recover from what Wylie told El Pais was a “brutal attack” that cut nerves to one arm.

Wylie told the newspaper he could not say whether Rushdie remained in a hospital or discuss his whereabouts.

“He’s going to live ... That’s the important thing,” Wylie said.

The attack was along the lines of what Rushie and his agent have thought was the “principal danger ... a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking,” Wylie told El Pais.

“So you can’t protect against it because it’s totally unexpected and illogical,” he said.

Wylie told the newspaper it was like Beatles member John Lennon’s murder. Lennon was shot to death by Mark David Chapman outside his Manhattan apartment building Dec. 8, 1980, hours after the singer had signed an autograph for Chapman.

In a jailhouse interview with The New York Post, Matar said he disliked Rushdie and praised Khomeini. Iran has denied involvement in the attack.

SOURCE

Interview from the suspect

https://apnews.com/article/salman-rushdie-middle-east-iran-new-york-2aaf7c8fdc459c664173beb4dc0a9ef5

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Religion of peace.

Not defending anything.

But you see my friends, José Emilio Pacheco once said, and i quote

"hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” ―

You will notice the same set of people that has been crying about Tribal marginalisation and Religion segregations politically will all run into this thread like freed chicken from a cage, to run their mouth, pour all their hidden hatred and insult the religion of Islam with reckless abandon.

The gays, that has spent years crying of sexual right, the females that cried all years about gender sidelining, the tribe that wants a divorce from its country because its right to exist were allegedly been trampled, all of them will all crawl out of their sorry-cage and they will all be here to insult someone else belief just because few set of people decided to go rogue and extreme.

Brothers and sister, you see If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.


Most of you are worst than the people you criticise. Christianity and the positivity that accompany it is just a cover face for most of you. You are more evil than the attacker.

lhordspy:
Lol

Afonja back stabber

I'm happy he survived. I know millions of a certain type of people are in pains that this man is still breathing.

Let them continue to live in pains.

Non of my business.

Ok

lhordspy:
Not defending anything.

But you see my friends, José Emilio Pacheco once said, and i quote

"hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” ―

You will notice the same set of people that has been crying about Tribal marginailisation and Religion segregations politically will all run into this thread like freed chicken from a cage, to run their mouth, pour all their hidden hatred and insult the religion of Islam with reckless abandon.

The gays, that has spent years crying of sexual right, the females that cried all years about gender sidelining, the tribe that wants a divorce from its country because its right to exist were allegedly been trampled, all of them will all crawl out of their sorry-cage and they will all be here to insult someone else belief just because few set of people decided to go rogue and extreme.

Borthers and sister, you see If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.


Most of you are worst than the people you criticise. Christianity is just a cover face. You are more evil than the attacker.

Is that the issue?

.... Not again.
Will this man ever enjoy his social life again before leaving this world?
Imagine, a kid that wasn't even born when a fatwa was issued on his head is taking upon himself to take a revenge.
Very pathetic!

Who is that fool that is spitting caustic soda up there?

lhordspy:
Not defending anything.

But you see my friends, José Emilio Pacheco once said, and i quote

"hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” ―

You will notice the same set of people that has been crying about Tribal marginailisation and Religion segregations politically will all run into this thread like freed chicken from a cage, to run their mouth, pour all their hidden hatred and insult the religion of Islam with reckless abandon.

The gays, that has spent years crying of sexual right, the females that cried all years about gender sidelining, the tribe that wants a divorce from its country because its right to exist were allegedly been trampled, all of them will all crawl out of their sorry-cage and they will all be here to insult someone else belief just because few set of people decided to go rogue and extreme.

Borthers and sister, you see If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.


Most of you are worst than the people you criticise. Christianity is just a cover face. You are more evil than the attacker.

I was actually taking you serious and then you decide to spoil everything.

Yea you are right some people who do worse will com here and condemn.
But the reason why you feel they are wrong is still the same reason why you shouldn't have mentioned Christianity at the end.

Now you ended up making no point

Religion of peace in deed.

Everywhere dem show up na trouble

Make I go download the book sef

If your god can not fight for himself, how then is he a god?

When someone criticizes the evil on your doorstep, it takes knowledge for you to know it needs to be removed.

A wise man once said... The criticism that illicits guilt always make the criticized begin to ask about the evil on a bystanders doorstep.

Not everyone is religious, and some are irreligiously religious.

Islam is religion of peace sorry piece indeed

Islam changed Iran from an egalitarian society to a hell hole

The madness of religion...especially THAT religion.
The young man tried to murder a man for writing a book DECADES before he was born. I am sure he has not even read the book to determine whether it was blasphemous or not but was ready to risk life, limb and liberty to carry out the instructions of a fellow man.......MADNESS.. .

lhordspy:
Not defending anything.

But you see my friends, José Emilio Pacheco once said, and i quote

"hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” ―

You will notice the same set of people that has been crying about Tribal marginailisation and Religion segregations politically will all run into this thread like freed chicken from a cage, to run their mouth, pour all their hidden hatred and insult the religion of Islam with reckless abandon.

The gays, that has spent years crying of sexual right, the females that cried all years about gender sidelining, the tribe that wants a divorce from its country because its right to exist were allegedly been trampled, all of them will all crawl out of their sorry-cage and they will all be here to insult someone else belief just because few set of people decided to go rogue and extreme.

Borthers and sister, you see If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.


Most of you are worst than the people you criticise. Christianity is just a cover face. You are more evil than the attacker.

Why does negativity rule your life?

Bontafa:


Afonja back stabber

Na you be the first person to do this senseless tribal gbasgbos for this thread
Yet you say you be human being,enyia you be useless animal joor
Shun tribal bigotry.

Satanic verses is now more popular

If they start profiling muslim in Yankee, guess who will start complaining about discrimination?

People will emigrate from their useless shithole oppression filed countries and still find the energy to manifest the religious madness that made their country a shit hole in the first place

lhordspy:
Not defending anything.

But you see my friends, José Emilio Pacheco once said, and i quote

"hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” ―

You will notice the same set of people that has been crying about Tribal marginailisation and Religion segregations politically will all run into this thread like freed chicken from a cage, to run their mouth, pour all their hidden hatred and insult the religion of Islam with reckless abandon.

The gays, that has spent years crying of sexual right, the females that cried all years about gender sidelining, the tribe that wants a divorce from its country because its right to exist were allegedly been trampled, all of them will all crawl out of their sorry-cage and they will all be here to insult someone else belief just because few set of people decided to go rogue and extreme.

Borthers and sister, you see If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.


Most of you are worst than the people you criticise. Christianity is just a cover face. You are more evil than the attacker.

Not few that went rogue and extreme, but rather majority, majority of Islam have the same ideology.

Proudlyomonna:


Na you be the first person to do this senseless tribal gbasgbos for this thread
Yet you say you be human being,enyia you be useless animal joor
Shun tribal bigotry.

Me and you no dey fight I dey always like your post .

Next time if you see me quote person for tribal issue, click on the person moniker read e past post .

No dey do Judas and ass licker

You have a brain equivalent to a grain of rice. religion of piss kor religion of peace ni, FOOL!

PraiseGod4u:


I was actually taking you serious and then you decide to spoil everything.

Yea you are right some people who do worse will com here and condemn.
But the reason why you feel they are wrong is still the same reason why you shouldn't have mentioned Christianity at the end.

Now you ended up making no point

he is a wacko.