Salman (not Salbass) Rushdie attacked/stabbed during lecture in western NY

[C-Man 26535]

Somebody playing the long game?

https://apnews.com/article/salman-rushdie-attacked-9eae99aea82cb0d39628851ecd42227a?taid=62f66e7da3b3e500018694a5

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CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — 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 York.

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 75-year-old author was pushed or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.

Rushdie was quickly surrounded by a small group of people who held up his legs, presumably to send more blood to his chest.

His condition was not immediately known.

Hundreds of people in the audience gasped at the sight of the attack and were then evacuated.

Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.

A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.

Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment has lingered. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.

Rushdie dismissed that threat at the time, saying there was “no evidence” of people being interested in the reward.

That year, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa. The title came from the pseudonym Rushdie had used while in hiding.

Rushdie rose to prominence with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children,” but his name became known around the world after “The Satanic Verses.”

The Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York, is known for its summertime lecture series. Rushdie has spoken there before.

 

[chainsaw 9440]

2 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Somebody playing the long game?

https://apnews.com/article/salman-rushdie-attacked-9eae99aea82cb0d39628851ecd42227a?taid=62f66e7da3b3e500018694a5

 

He gonna make it?

[atomheartbevo 88750]

1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

He gonna make it?

He had wounds to the neck, and light wounds to the head, and they airlifted him to a hospital

So there's a chance he will make it.

I'll comfort his ex-wife Padma Lakshmi.

[Foosters 17624]

Know a guy who was with Rushie at dinner last night and said he made a joke about being Fatwa'd . . .  

[closetohumping 17258]

Is Padme married to this gentleman?

[Nivek 16643]

terrible.  

[sidis 9608]

$3 million bounty is crazy.  Here's hoping he pulls through.

[kevwun 15189]

11 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Is Padme married to this gentleman?

Used to be.  They divorced a long time ago.

[Texas St. Armadillos 1368]

20 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Is Padme married to this gentleman?

Divorced in 2007.  Then dated a billionaire until he died.  Then had a baby with Michael Dell's brother.

She knows her value.

[mchookem 15429]

[Steel Shank 9325]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

He had wounds to the neck, and light wounds to the head, and they airlifted him to a hospital

So there's a chance he will make it.

I'll comfort his ex-wife Padma Lakshmi.

A hospital?! What is it?!

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2718]

Who exactly pays bounties and is that a taxable event?  

[jeevsie 3683]

1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

Is Padme married to this gentleman?

?

[Braff Zacklin 13284]

1 hour ago, Steel Shank said:

A hospital?! What is it?!

It's a large building with patients, but that's not important right now.

[Earl Haffler 567]

1 hour ago, mchookem said:

His breasts are real...

[sidis 9608]

1 hour ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

Who exactly pays bounties and is that a taxable event?  

ironically, it is a band of media organizations that purport to deliver "news" in iran.  it is effectively the state media group that have pooled together the equivalent of $3 million for the bounty.

[Jerry Callo 8626]

[Bigbend1812 12864]

[CTC2 2626]

8 hours ago, Foosters said:

Know a guy who was with Rushie at dinner last night and said he made a joke about being Fatwa'd . . .  

I was alone in a elevator with him once in LA and I actively wondered what he would do if I made a quick move towards him.  
Hope he pulls through.  

 

[WBT 20131]

I read Midnight's Children in high school English.  Some weird stuff but I liked it.  I should read Satanic Verses sometime just to see what made it fatwa-worthy.

[Kavinsky 417]

9 hours ago, Foosters said:

Know a guy who was with Rushie at dinner last night and said he made a joke about being Fatwa'd . . .  

Edited August 13, 2022 by Kavinsky

[rage-a-holic 4237]

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A spokesperson for the New York State Police identified the suspect as Hadi Matar, 24,

obviously a good Jewish kid

[Armybrat 40464]

Matar = “to kill” in Spanish.

Coincidence?

[atomheartbevo 88750]

Holy shit

"Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," his agent, Andrew Wylie said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62528689

[Nivek 16643]

[Rip76 4871]

Wow.

Total, long game

[Hermanator 6562]

3 hours ago, WBT said:

I read Midnight's Children in high school English.  Some weird stuff but I liked it.  I should read Satanic Verses sometime just to see what made it fatwa-worthy.

absolutely nothing made it worthy. Just stupid bullshit. 

Another in the long line of evidence that religion is the worst plague to ever befall mankind. 

[Deej 76080]

8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Holy shit

"Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," his agent, Andrew Wylie said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62528689

"Don't care, fucked Padma."

[BrazilHorn 6552]

11 hours ago, Rip76 said:

Wow.

Total, long game

No shit. The guy that attacked him was born the year Satanic Verses was published. Fucking nuts. Doubt this guy has ever even read the book. 

[Humble Beast 258]

Unless something weird happens he’s gonna make it. 
 

 

[atomheartbevo 88750]

23 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:

Unless something weird happens he’s gonna make it. 

What, like somebody telling John Hinckley Jr. that Rushdie is fucking Jodie Foster?

[Mole 4265]

Everyone should read Midnight’s Children because it’s an amazing book. It’s like a great symphony in novel form. It’s VERY dense for a westerner, but if you’re willing to go along for the ride, it’s worth it.

Everyone should read The Satanic Verses because of Iran’s endorsement. It’s a very good book, but any book that causes a fatwa and bounty demands to be read.

[956 Worldwide 33957]

Have read both Midnight’s Children and the Satanic Verses. Satanic Verses is not as good of a book, but it’s good enough and it’s important to read for an insight into the type of thing that will make fundamentalist Muslims issue a call for death. 

[956 Worldwide 33957]

22 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

No shit. The guy that attacked him was born the year Satanic Verses was published. Fucking nuts. Doubt this guy has ever even read the book. 

Nah, he wasn’t born when the book was first published.  Happens to me, too. I am confident that the 1980s happened about 20 years ago. 

[Redneck Mutha 7832]

On 8/12/2022 at 12:44 PM, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

Who exactly pays bounties and is that a taxable event?  

They just write it off.

[BrazilHorn 6552]

30 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Nah, he wasn’t born when the book was first published.  Happens to me, too. I am confident that the 1980s happened about 20 years ago. 

Knew that felt off. Even worse. Someone groomed this kid to try and kill someone over this book. Just stupid 

[Armybrat 40464]

You can’t spell Fundamentalist without “mental”.

They are all mental cases IMO.

[SquishMitten 10368]

Damn. $3 million is quite a bit to have just sat around for that long without a bunch of people making an attempt. 

[Tailgate 2972]

This is a crazy story…for my family as well. We used to visit Chautauqua every summer with my wife’s family. Her step mom led the women’s club there and we would go to each lecture and listen to fascinating speakers and enjoy the peaceful and open grounds. If you’ve ever been, it’s the last place you would expect something like this to happen…which is likely how he got away with it. It’s truly an amazing place. Pre internet and phone Chautauqua was a place where leaders in their field would come and enlighten the audience with what was going on in the world. The first house Edison electrified is there (or hotel or something of his firsts)…Amelia Earhart landed her plane there to speak. I was there one summer when they had a sports leader section and Roger Goodell spoke and I met him next to the stage. 
 

No cars, only bikes…arts, literature, music…some of the best ice cream you’ve had…just a really special place. Great historic homes everyone stays in on property. Still unreal to think about this happening there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua

St. Stephen’s site in Austin was originally a Chautauqua as well.

[Chooky 13277]

Uhhhh, it's actually pronounced "sam uhn."

[chainsaw 9440]

Your name is Rushdie yet you are taking your time with death. Curious.

[Redneck Mutha 7832]

37 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Your name is Rushdie yet you are taking your time with death. Curious.

Dude's a fighter, it's like he's been swimming upstream his entire life to survive.

[Deej 76080]

6 hours ago, Redneck Mutha said:

Dude's a fighter, it's like he's been swimming upstream his entire life to survive.

Worth it. 

 

[Texzilla58 4683]

Rushdie should be the poster boy for schlubs that regardless of what they achieve, bedding Padma and getting her to marry and spawn with you gives hope to millions.