Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been attacked...

Rushdie was at the institution in western New York for a discussion about the United States giving asylum to writers and artists in exile and "as a home for freedom of creative expression", according to the institution's website. "I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer," Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and activist who was in the audience, said. "A man jumped up on the stage ... and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck," Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience, said. Rushdie, 75, was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom at western New York's Chautauqua Institution when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s. After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening after an attack condemned by writers and politicians around the world as an assault on the freedom of expression. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, has been stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to hospital.

Rushdie is in surgery after he was stabbed in the neck as he prepared to give speech in Chautauqua, in upstate New York.

One Muslim-majority country after another banned the book, and in December thousands of Muslims demonstrated in Bolton, Greater Manchester, and burned a pile of the books. So it was when I read a review in the Independent by Sean O’Grady of The Satanic Verses: 30 Years On, a BBC documentary on the Rushdie affair and its legacy. The day after those riots, 14 February 1989, the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a religious decree, a fatwa, calling on all Muslims to execute not just Rushdie but everyone involved in the book’s publication. The Indian-born author had come from a career as an advertising copywriter, confecting slogans such as “naughty but nice” for cream cakes, for example. I wouldn’t have it in my house, out of respect to Muslim people and contempt for Rushdie, and because it sounds quite boring. Authorities have not released more information on his condition, though a doctor at the event described Rushdie’s wounds as “serious, but recoverable”. The event moderator was also attacked and suffered a facial injury. “I hope Mr Rushdie quickly and fully recovers and the perpetrator experiences full accountability and justice.” “The criminal attack on Salman Rushdie is an aggression against all literature. As members of the audience screamed, people ran to tackle the attacker and render aid to Rushdie, who had been apparently stabbed several times, including in the neck. Audience members rushed to help and apprehend the suspect before a state trooper at the event arrested him. The institution’s president said Friday that they worked with state and local police to provide event security. A man dressed in black rushed the stage and attacked Rushdie.

From The New Yorker's archive: the novelist, who was stabbed on Friday as he was about to deliver a lecture in western New York, recalls the religious death ...

“He realized,” Rushdie writes, “in that footstep-haunted space, that he no longer understood his life, or what it might become.” On Friday morning, the author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck as he stood onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York, where he was scheduled to give a lecture. An assassination attempt against Rushdie failed later that year, and the writer spent periods in the years that followed in hiding, or under heightened security when he made public appearances.

Author was attacked by a man storming the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

A statement from New York state police said: “On August 12, 2022, at about 11am, a male suspect ran up on to the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer. Rushdie suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, and was transported by helicopter to an area hospital. You need a pass to access the grounds but it is not too difficult get in. A state trooper assigned to the event immediately took the suspect into custody. Eyewitness reports said that a man wearing a black mask rushed onstage and began to attack Rushdie as he was sitting on the stage. The statement continued: “The interviewer suffered a minor head injury. Speaking to the Guardian, Japanese-born English novelist Kazuo Ishiguro said: “He’s been incredibly brave through all these years, continuously putting himself on the line for the right to think and speak freely, despite the dangers that never went away. But here is an individual who has spent decades speaking truth to power, someone who’s been out there unafraid, despite the threats that have followed him his entire adult life.” Chautauqua has always prided itself as a place where people can engage in civil dialogue. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin assaulting Rushdie as he was being introduced. Phone footage captured moments after the attack shows audience members scrambling on to the stage to help. Photos taken by an Associated Press reporter show Rushdie lying on his back, with a first responder crouched over him.

Salman Rushdie, the author of "The Satanic Verses," was brutally attacked just as he was about to speak to an audience at the Chautauqua Institution.

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck and torso as he ...

Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a hospital, state police said, adding that he was apparently stabbed in the neck. In 2012, Rushdie published a memoir called Joseph Anton, about the fatwa. A New York State Police trooper providing security at the event took the attacker into custody. "The news is not good," Andrew Wylie, his book agent, wrote in an email. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck and torso as he was about to give a lecture in western New York and airlifted to a hospital, police said. A man rushed to the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and attacked Rushdie, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s, as he was being introduced to give a talk on artistic freedom to an audience of hundreds, eyewitnesses said.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because...

Rushdie was at the institution in western New York for a discussion about the United States giving asylum to writers and artists in exile and "as a home for freedom of creative expression", according to the institution's website. "I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer," Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and activist who was in the audience, said. "A man jumped up on the stage ... and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck," Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience, said. Rushdie, 75, was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom at western New York's Chautauqua Institution when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s. After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening after an attack condemned by writers and politicians around the world as an assault on the freedom of expression. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, has been stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to hospital.

British author Salman Rushdie, whose writings have made him the target of Iranian death threats, underwent emergency surgery on Friday after being ...

Police said Mr Rushdie was stabbed in the neck as well as the abdomen. "What I saw today was the essence of intolerance." We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced." Mr Wylie said the author is on a ventilator and cannot speak. Police did not provide details of the prominent figure's condition beyond that he was still in surgery. Professor LeVan said the suspect "was trying to stab him as many times as possible before he was subdued," adding that he believed the man "was trying to kill" Mr Rushdie.

The British author was repeatedly stabbed in the neck and abdomen as he was about to give a lecture in western New York, with his agent saying, ...

Police said Mr Rushdie was stabbed in the neck as well as the abdomen. "What I saw today was the essence of intolerance." We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced." Mr Wylie said the author is on a ventilator and cannot speak. Police did not provide details of the prominent figure's condition beyond that he was still in surgery. Professor LeVan said the suspect "was trying to stab him as many times as possible before he was subdued," adding that he believed the man "was trying to kill" Mr Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because...

Rushdie was at the institution in western New York for a discussion about the United States giving asylum to writers and artists in exile and "as a home for freedom of creative expression", according to the institution's website. "I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer," Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and activist who was in the audience, said. "A man jumped up on the stage ... and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck," Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience, said. Rushdie, 75, was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom at western New York's Chautauqua Institution when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s. After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening after an attack condemned by writers and politicians around the world as an assault on the freedom of expression. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, has been stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to hospital.

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been attacked...

Rushdie was at the institution in western New York for a discussion about the United States giving asylum to writers and artists in exile and "as a home for freedom of creative expression", according to the institution's website. "I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer," Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and activist who was in the audience, said. "A man jumped up on the stage ... and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck," Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience, said. Rushdie, 75, was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom at western New York's Chautauqua Institution when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s. After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening after an attack condemned by writers and politicians around the world as an assault on the freedom of expression. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, has been stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to hospital.

The controversial author spent years in hiding after 1989 decree by the Iranian leader led to threats against his life.

Rushdie spent time in hiding under the pseudonym Joseph Anton. Reuters has reported that he is in surgery, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said Rushdie is “getting the care he needs”. It was dissolved in 2003. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a religious edict calling for the author’s death. 2022: Rushdie is made a Companion of Honour in the British Queen’s annual birthday honours. 2008: Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children is named the “Booker of Bookers” after winning a public vote for the best Booker-winning novel in 40 years of the award.

The British author was repeatedly stabbed in the neck and abdomen as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

Police said Mr Rushdie was stabbed in the neck as well as the abdomen. "What I saw today was the essence of intolerance." We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced." Mr Wylie said the author is on a ventilator and cannot speak. Police did not provide details of the prominent figure's condition beyond that he was still in surgery. Professor LeVan said the suspect "was trying to stab him as many times as possible before he was subdued," adding that he believed the man "was trying to kill" Mr Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because...

Rushdie was at the institution in western New York for a discussion about the United States giving asylum to writers and artists in exile and "as a home for freedom of creative expression", according to the institution's website. "I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer," Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and activist who was in the audience, said. "A man jumped up on the stage ... and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck," Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience, said. Rushdie, 75, was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom at western New York's Chautauqua Institution when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s. After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening after an attack condemned by writers and politicians around the world as an assault on the freedom of expression. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, has been stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to hospital.

Salman Rushdie, award-winning author and figure of fury to the Iranian regime, has been stabbed yesterday while giving a lecture in New York.

It marked the beginning of the end for the defence of Western free speech, which has increasingly found itself bowing to censorship – classified as ‘hate speech’ – and silenced by social media giants that are part-owned by prominent Islamic businessmen. While the Left in the West harp on about ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’, there is not much of it in the Islamic world. French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo found itself the target of three terrorist attacks, with 12 people dying in the 2015 attack after a pair of Islamic gunmen entered the magazine head office and fired on staff while shouting, ‘Allahu akbar!’ Despite the world originally coming together in shock at the display of religious extremism silencing a French publication in what is often considered the ‘home of liberty’, many in the Western media were quick to blame the publication for ‘offending’ the Islamic world. One may not discuss the growth of Islam as a historical phenomenon, as an ideology born out of its time. Book burning by Muslims took place in various cities such as West Yorkshire and other locations in the UK, much to the shock of a nation used to upholding free speech and religious tolerance. The moderator of the event was also injured when he tried to intervene to save Rushdie. The ruthlessness with which religious figures upheld the direction to murder those involved with the work forced Rushdie into a decade of hiding. Despite the current Iranian government apparently ‘distancing’ itself from the fatwa, a religious foundation, The Iranian Revolutionary 15th Khordad Foundation, upped the bounty on Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million and the regime did nothing to stop it. We wait to see if this brutal attack on an author leads to any revelations within Western governments about the state of free speech within their legislation. There are reports that he may also lose an eye due to the severity of his injuries. Fatwas can only be reversed by the person who made them, which is a problem because Khomeini died in 1989. The 24-year-old New Jersey perpetrator is in police custody.

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who ...

In 2012, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, including a round-the-clock armed guard. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man confront Rushdie on stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing him 10 to 15 times as he was being introduced. He said the attack lasted about 20 seconds. Amid gasps, spectators were ushered out of the outdoor amphitheater. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

Indian-born novelist Salman Rushdie was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing. Here is a timeline of all that followed.

August 12, 2022: Rushdie is attacked on stage at a literary event in Chautauqua, western New York state, and is flown by helicopter to a local hospital for treatment. October 13, 2015: Rushdie warns of new dangers to freedom of speech in the West amid tight security at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The Iranian Ministry of Culture cancelled its national stand at the fair because of Rushdie's appearance. February 3, 1999: Mumbai-born Rushdie is granted a visa by the Indian government to visit his country of birth, triggering protests by Muslims. July 3, 1991: Ettore Capriolo, Italian translator of The Satanic Verses, is beaten and attacked with a knife in his Milan flat by a man who says he is Iranian. February 12, 1989: At least six people are killed in the Pakistani city of Islamabad in shooting between police and gunmen in a crowd protesting against the sale of the novel in the United States. On Friday, Rushdie was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because...

Rushdie was at the institution in western New York for a discussion about the United States giving asylum to writers and artists in exile and "as a home for freedom of creative expression", according to the institution's website. "I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer," Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and activist who was in the audience, said. "A man jumped up on the stage ... and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck," Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience, said. Rushdie, 75, was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom at western New York's Chautauqua Institution when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s. After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening after an attack condemned by writers and politicians around the world as an assault on the freedom of expression. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, has been stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to hospital.

Salman Rushdie has lived under threat of death for decades after a fatwa was issued in response to the content of his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses.

Literature expert Greg Rubinson argued in Rushdie's defence, suggesting the novelist's "irreverent mockery" was questioning whether it was possible to separate fact and fiction. A New York State Police trooper providing security at the event took the attacker into custody. Even though, in the book, Mahound's fictional scribe, Salman the Persian, rejects the authenticity of his master's recitations, he records them as if they were God's. Muslims believe that the Prophet Muhammed was visited by the angel Gibreel – Gabriel in English – who, over a 22-year period, recited God's words to him. Rushdie's novel takes up these core beliefs. In turn, Muhammed repeated the words to his followers.

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been attacked...

Rushdie was at the institution in western New York for a discussion about the United States giving asylum to writers and artists in exile and "as a home for freedom of creative expression", according to the institution's website. "I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer," Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and activist who was in the audience, said. "A man jumped up on the stage ... and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck," Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience, said. Rushdie, 75, was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom at western New York's Chautauqua Institution when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s. After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening after an attack condemned by writers and politicians around the world as an assault on the freedom of expression. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, has been stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to hospital.

The Satanic Verses author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen at an event in New York state.

"Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. There has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Mr Rushdie's stabbing. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution. A doctor in the audience gave Mr Rushdie first aid. A year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie's execution. He was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, by helicopter.

Praise for attack on writer targeted by decades-old fatwa comes as some fear incident will leave Iran more isolated.

“As I have already said, this is a bullet for which there is a target. “The decision made about Salman Rushdie is still valid,” Khamenei said in 1989. Staffers there declined to immediately comment, referring questions to an official not in the office. Early on Saturday, Iranian state media made a point of mentioning a man identified as being killed while trying to carry out the fatwa. “This is the fate for anybody who insults sanctities.” “The news is not good.

Author Rushdie is on ventilator and could lose an eye following a stabbing attack at a literary event in New York state.

- “A man jumped up on the stage from I don’t know where and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck,” said Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience. - Iran’s government has since distanced itself from the decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment has lingered. Nobody knew how to react. “Nobody knew what to do. - Police confirmed Rushdie was stabbed “at least once in the neck, and at least once in the abdomen” on Friday after an assailant rushed to the stage and lunged at the 75-year-old writer just as he was being introduced to the audience. Author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed on Friday at a literary event in New York state, is on a ventilator and unable to speak.

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New ...

That year, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced.

The suspect in the attack on Salman Rushdie at an event in New York state was sympathetic to Shiite extremism and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...

The suspect’s parents emigrated to the United States and he was born and raised there, the mayor added. Rushdie has lived with a bounty on his head since 1989. He was likely to lose one eye.

Suspect, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey remanded without bail over alleged attack on author in New York.

A helicopter crew flew Rushdie to a hospital in nearby Erie, Pennsylvania, where he underwent surgery. He suffered a relatively minor facial wound during the attack. The crime, under New York law, can carry up to 25 years in prison upon conviction. Rushdie suffered three stab wounds to the right front of his neck, another four to his stomach, one each to his right eye and chest, and a cut to his right thigh, Schmidt said on Saturday. Investigators had earlier booked Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, with one count of attempted second-degree murder in Rushdie’s stabbing and one count of second-degree assault on a man who shared a stage with the author at the time of the attack on Friday, according to a statement from authorities. The man suspected of stabbing the novelist Salman Rushdie at a literary festival in western New York pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault at a court appearance on Saturday.

Salman Rushdie, award-winning author and figure of fury to the Iranian regime, has been stabbed yesterday while giving a lecture in New York.

It marked the beginning of the end for the defence of Western free speech, which has increasingly found itself bowing to censorship – classified as ‘hate speech’ – and silenced by social media giants that are part-owned by prominent Islamic businessmen. While the Left in the West harp on about ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’, there is not much of it in the Islamic world. French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo found itself the target of three terrorist attacks, with 12 people dying in the 2015 attack after a pair of Islamic gunmen entered the magazine head office and fired on staff while shouting, ‘Allahu akbar!’ Despite the world originally coming together in shock at the display of religious extremism silencing a French publication in what is often considered the ‘home of liberty’, many in the Western media were quick to blame the publication for ‘offending’ the Islamic world. One may not discuss the growth of Islam as a historical phenomenon, as an ideology born out of its time. Book burning by Muslims took place in various cities such as West Yorkshire and other locations in the UK, much to the shock of a nation used to upholding free speech and religious tolerance. The moderator of the event was also injured when he tried to intervene to save Rushdie. The ruthlessness with which religious figures upheld the direction to murder those involved with the work forced Rushdie into a decade of hiding. Despite the current Iranian government apparently ‘distancing’ itself from the fatwa, a religious foundation, The Iranian Revolutionary 15th Khordad Foundation, upped the bounty on Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million and the regime did nothing to stop it. We wait to see if this brutal attack on an author leads to any revelations within Western governments about the state of free speech within their legislation. There are reports that he may also lose an eye due to the severity of his injuries. Fatwas can only be reversed by the person who made them, which is a problem because Khomeini died in 1989. The 24-year-old New Jersey perpetrator is in police custody.

After the author Salman Rushdie was stabbed on Friday at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, state and federal investigators were trying to ...

The novel’s Norwegian publisher was shot three times in 1993 outside his home in Oslo and was seriously injured. A spokeswoman for a hospital in Erie, Pa., where Mr. Rushdie is being treated, said it would not provide information on patient conditions. A woman in a gray Jeep Rubicon in the driveway kept her windows up, waving off reporters as she sped away. In court, prosecutors said that the attack on the author was premeditated and targeted. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran after its 1979 revolution, issued an edict known as a fatwa on Feb. 14, 1989. When Mr. Matar, a United States citizen, was arrested, he was carrying two fake IDs, according to a law enforcement official. People started to congregate in the aisles. Mr. Rushdie, who had been living relatively openly after years of a semi-clandestine existence, had just taken a seat to give a talk when a man attacked him. A video on TikTok that was subsequently taken down showed the chaotic scene moments after the attacker had jumped onto the stage at the normally placid institution. Security at the Chautauqua Institution is minimal. A crowd of people immediately rushed to where the author lay on the stage to offer aid. Nathaniel Barone, a public defender, entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf.

Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage ...

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Authorities are working to understand the planning and preparation of the attack and are considering whether to lay more charges.

"A thousand bravos… to the brave and dutiful person who attacked the apostate and evil Salman Rushdie in New York," adding, "The hand of the man who tore the neck of God's enemy must be kissed". Mr Matar, from Fairview, New Jersey, was arraigned late on Friday on charges of attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree, the Mr Schmidt, said in a statement. Police said on Friday they had not established a motive for the attack on Rushdie, 75, who was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom when the attacker rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist. New York and New Jersey police did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the NBC New York report. The man accused in the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a "pre-planned" crime.

Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday in New York. We, together with all Americans and.

Salman Rushdie—with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced—stands for essential, universal ideals. Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday in New York. We, together with all Americans and people around the world, are praying for his health and recovery. And today, we reaffirm our commitment to those deeply American values in solidarity with Rushdie and all those who stand for freedom of expression.

Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked this week. He has been the subject of death threats since his book The Satanic Verses was ...

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The terrorist assault on Salman Rushdie on Friday morning, in western New York, was triply horrific to contemplate. First in its sheer brutality and cruelty ...

(Nor was he unwilling to be self-deprecatingly comic in order to assist a social occasion; I recall him once doing a karaoke version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” at a party in London.) In the thirty years or so that I have known him—far from intimately but steadily and always pleasurably—I was always impressed by the effortless equanimity with which, in public at least, he dealt with his strange fate. Finally, if more locally, it was horrific because it had seemed to those who knew him that the fatwa had faded in significance and threat, that it had become the subject for retrospective memoir, as in his fine one, “ Joseph Anton,” and even for actual comedy. This is a doubly despicable viewpoint, not only because there was no actual insult offered but also because the right to be insulting about other people’s religions—or their absence of one—is a fundamental right, part of the inheritance of the human spirit. What makes the story so tragic, and the comic-television moment so illustrative of his nature, is that Salman, to those who knew him—no, know him—as a friend, was the most amiable of men, the least narrowly contentious, the most rational and reasonable guy they would ever meet. He was a writer, with a writer’s pastimes and a writer’s rights. For the next decade, Rushdie was under protection and, though far from disappearing from the world—for the most part, he went where he wanted—it was always under guard.

Author Salman Rushdie remains in hospital with serious injuries a day after he was repeatedly stabbed at a...

In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran's supreme leader, pronounced a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on Muslims to kill the author and anyone involved in the book's publication for blasphemy. There was no visible police presence on Saturday at the house, a two-storey brick-and-mortar home in a largely Spanish-speaking neighbourhood. The book was banned in many countries with large Muslim populations. In a statement on Saturday, President Joe Biden commended the "universal ideals" that Rushdie and his work embody. The assault was premeditated. They can't just assume something happened for why they think something happened."

A 24-year-old man from New Jersey was arraigned on charges of attempted murder and assault; Investigators have been working to determine whether the suspect ...

"A thousand bravos… "His resources don't matter to me. to the brave and dutiful person who attacked the apostate and evil Salman Rushdie in New York," adding, "The hand of the man who tore the neck of God's enemy must be kissed". Mr Matar, from Fairview, New Jersey, was arraigned late on Friday on charges of attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree, the Mr Schmidt, said in a statement. Indian-born author Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him over his novel "The Satanic Verses", was stabbed in the neck and torso on stage at a lecture on Friday. Earlier in the day, the man accused of attacking him on Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat centre, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a "pre-planned" crime.

Author seriously injured in New York stabbing remains in hospital, as Joe Biden praises his courage and suspect denies attempted murder.

A motive for the attack appears to be unclear. As of Saturday afternoon, the novel ranked No 13 on Amazon.com. Iran’s theocratic government and its state-run media assigned no motive for the attack. Authors, activists and government officials cited Rushdie’s courage and longtime advocacy of free speech despite the risks to his own safety. And today, we reaffirm our commitment to those deeply American values in solidarity with Rushdie and all those who stand for freedom of expression,” the president said in a statement. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell “strongly” condemned the attack on Saturday night.