Ayatollah Khomeini had issued a religious edict calling for Rushdie’s assassination.
Attack on stage in New York, where he was preparing to give a lecture, received the well-known author of the book Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie. According to many Western media reports, he has been injured.
The Associated Press reports that a man broke into the Chautauqua Institute tent and punched or stabbed the 75-year-old.
So far his health status is unknown author of the book. Rushdie, who had received threats against his life from Iran in the late 1980s.
The Satanic Verses written by Rushdie caused a stir in several countries of the Muslim world in 1988, as it was considered a book with “blasphemous” content. In fact, the then supreme religious leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini had issued a religious edict calling for Rushdie’s assassination.
Videos circulated on social networks shortly after the attack on the Indian-origin author, as well as photos of the alleged perpetrator.
NOW – Salman Rushdie is stabbed on stage in New York.pic.twitter.com/qFmYE6BC5E
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 12, 2022
Al parecer Salman Rushdie was attacked with a knife. Recordemos que pesa sobre el una fatwa (Muslim religious edict) to kill him after the publication of Los verso satánicos https://t.co/N1klZKG0WE
— Alejo Schapire (@aschapire) August 12, 2022
https://t.co/pJlYduKCY0
— Ryan Kelly (@NotThatRKelly) August 12, 2022
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