Author Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage, according to a video sent to Twitter.
Salman Rushdie, a writer, was stabbed in front of a large audience while on stage at a meeting in New York.
Shocked witnesses described the incident as a “truly gruesome event” when the author of The Satanic Verses was apparently brutally stabbed before the huge gathering was evacuated.
Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Mr Rushdie in 1988 after his controversial book was published, ordering the author’s execution. The assailant was quickly shot. Others who followed Rushdie on social media noted that he appeared to have been stabbed and was bleeding.
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Video Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage
Salman Rushdie apparently came under fire ahead of his Friday appearance at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. The well-known novelist was attacked while performing and received prompt medical attention, according to The Associated Press.
Footage taken at the scene and posted to Twitter by another user appears to show Rushdie being put into an ambulance and a man appearing to be in custody.
Rushdie either fell to the ground or had to be taken to hospital, according to the AP. The Chautauqua institution did not respond when Insider contacted them. He was also unable to immediately contact local officials for comment.
Rabbi Charles Savenor, executive director of the Civic Spirit, witnessed the incident. He spoke as Rushdie was attacked as he sat in a chair after being welcomed on stage to applause. In a video posted by another Twitter user, Rushdie is shown being placed on a Medevac helicopter.
Rushdie received death threats following his controversial previous book “The Satanic Verses”. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, President of Iran, called for Rushdie’s assassination in a fatwa he issued in 1989.
Salman Rushdie endured years of death threats.
Indian-born novelist Salman Rushdie is particularly interested in the interactions, alterations and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His works combine magical realism and historical fiction. His works are usually set in India, which is why he constantly received death threats.
Her second book, Midnight’s Children, which was published in 1981 and won the Booker Prize. It was called “the best novel of all winners” on the 25th and 40th anniversaries of the award.
When The Satanic Verses came out in 1988, Muslims were outraged. He received death threats, including one stemming from a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his assassination in 1989.
In 1983 Rushdie was selected for Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature. He was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 1999. [3] In recognition of his contributions to literature, he was knighted in 2007. On The Times’ 2008 list of Britain’s 50 best novelists since 1945, he came in at number 12.
More information on Salman Rushdie’s family
Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947 in Bombay to a Muslim Indian family from Kashmir during the British Raj. He is the son of Cambridge-educated lawyer and businessman Anis Ahmed Rushdie and educator Negin Bhatt.
Rushdie has been married four times. He was married to Clarisse Luard[13] from 1976 to 1987. They had a son together named Zafar (born in 1979). [14] He dumped her for Australian author Robyn Davidson, who was introduced to him by mutual friend Bruce Chatwin in the mid-1980s.
His second wife was Marianne Wiggins, an American author; they married in 1988 and divorced in 1993. Elizabeth West, his third wife, to whom he was married from 1997 to 2004, gave birth in Milan. In 2004, he was married to actress, model and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi. On July 2, 2007, the union broke up.
Anis Ahmed Rushdie has been expelled from the Indian civil service after it was discovered that the birth certificate he presented had been manipulated to make him look younger than he actually was (ICS). Rushdie has three sisters. He said in his 2012 book that his father adopted the name Rushdie as a tribute to Averroes.
