Salman Rushdie Update: “Alive,” ‘HE HAS A PULSE’ after being stabbed in neck on stage at New York event

Salman Rushdie, who has lived under Islamic death threat (fatwa) for decades, has been stabbed in the neck after an assailant stormed the stage at an event in western New York on Friday morning

The Booker Prize-winning author, 75, was stabbed “several times” at 11am at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state, the New York State Police said in a statement.Biden’s unequivocal support for the Iranian regime, which first issued the death fatwa in 1979, had a hand.

These death fatwas never expire. They are as valid today as when they were first issued.

Full story here: Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of death threats after writing critically about Islam, has been STABBED in the neck during an appearance in New York

New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters Mr Rushdie was “alive” and “getting the care he needs” at a press conference at around 12.30pm.

‘He has a pulse’

An eye witness to the attack on author Salman Rushdie said he suffered “multiple” stab wounds.

Rita Landman told the New York Times that there was a pool of blood around Mr Rushdie as he was attended to on-stage at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state.

“People were saying, ‘He has a pulse, he has a pulse he has a pulse,’” Ms Landman told the Times.

Salman Rushdie was taken to the hospital by medical helicopter.
Author Salman Rushdie was stabbed after taking stage at a Chautauqua Institute event.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul says Salman Rushdie is alive and has been transported to hospital

The event moderator was also attacked

She adds "He's getting the care that he needs"

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Salman Rushdie – live: Author ‘alive’ after being stabbed in neck on stage at New York event

The author, 75, was the target of a ‘fatwa’ by Iranian religious leaders over his 1988 book The Satanic Verses

BY: Bevan Hurley, The Independent, August 12, 2022:

Salman Rushdie has been stabbed in the neck after an assailant stormed the stage at an event in western New York on Friday morning

The Booker Prize-winning author, 75, was stabbed “several times” at 11am at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state, the New York State Police said in a statement.

He was airlifted to an area hospital by helicopter, and his condition is unknown, state police said.

A suspect was immediately taken into custody by a state trooper assigned to the event.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters Mr Rushdie was “alive” and “getting the care he needs” at a press conference at around 12.30pm.

Henry Reese, the co-founder of the City of Asylum organisation who was sitting next to Mr Rushdie, suffered a minor head injury, police said.

Salman Rushdie was the subject off death threats over his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie was the subject off death threats over his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses
(2017 Invision)

Mr Rushdie was the target of death threats over the publication of his 1988 book The Satanic Verses.

A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Mr Rushdie’s death.

He went into hiding for several years after the fatwa was issued.

Mr Rushdie has two sons and has been married four times, most recently to model and television host Padma Lakshmi. The couple wed in 2004 before divorcing three years later.

He was knighted in 2007 for “services to literature”, and is a long-term resident of New York City.
Salman Rushdie attacked on stage

Nigella Lawson ‘distraught’ over Rushdie stabbing

Nigella Lawson says she is “distraught” over the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie at a writer’s event in New York on Friday morning.

“Such shocking news of Salman Rushdie having been stabbed,” the acclaimed cookbook author wrote on Twitter.

“This is horrific. Am distraught. Please, please let him be ok.”

Ms Lawson has been friends with the Satanic Verses author for nearly four decades, and frequently socialised with him while he was in hiding due to death threats from Iranian religious leaders in the late 1980s.

Last year, she told how British security agents protecting Mr Rushdie had stormed her kitchen after mistakenly fearing there had been an “assassination attempt”.

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