The hero Salman Rushdie
Among the roughly 2,500 people in the audience., a man jumped on stage at the Chautauqua Institution and punch or stab the author Salman Rushdie 10 to 15 times as he was being introduced.
NYPD said Rushdie was apparently stabbed in the neck and was flown to a hospital. His condition wasn’t immediately known. The moderator at the event was also attacked and suffered a minor head injury, police state said.
The Iranian Government under the control of the Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini a bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie after he published the book “The Satanic Verses” in 1988.
Rushdie was a former president of PEN America,
The PEN America, issued the following statement in response to the attack on author Salman Rushdie:
“PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at the word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York. We can think of no comparable incident of a public violent attack on a literary writer on American soil. Just hours before the attack, on Friday morning, Salman had emailed me to help with placements for Ukrainian writers in need of safe refuge from the grave perils they face. Salman Rushdie has been targeted for his words for decades but has never flinched nor faltered. He has devoted tireless energy to assisting others who are vulnerable and menaced. While we do not know the origins or motives of this attack, all those around the world who have met words with violence or called for the same are culpable for legitimizing this assault on a writer while he was engaged in his essential work of connecting to readers. Our thoughts and passions now lie with our dauntless Salman, wishing him a full and speedy recovery. We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced.”
Some Iranian journalists who support the Iranian regime were happy, like Mohammad Gharawy
Some radicals like Ali Bari from Pakistan wrote
Salman Rushdie the Iranian blasphemer got serious injury on his neck shifted to hospital by helicopter ambulance in New York.
This harami wrote the book against the verses of Quran & hadith.
