Assault by Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in New York
Rushdie’s ebook The Satanic Verses has been banned in Iran since 1988 as a result of it’s thought-about blasphemous by many Muslims
Salman Rushdie, the creator whose writing led to dying threats from Iran within the 1980s, was attacked on Friday whereas getting ready to present a lecture in western New York.
A Related Press The reporter noticed a person storm the stage on the Chautauqua Establishment and started punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being launched. The creator was taken away or fell to the bottom and the person was held.
Rushdie’s ebook The Satanic Verses has been banned in Iran since 1988 as a result of many Muslims take into account it blasphemy. A yr later, the late Iranian chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s dying.
Iran has additionally supplied a reward of over $three million for anybody who kills Rushdie.
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