Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck

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Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck

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Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted to a hospital, police said.

He was alive and in surgery, according to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie.

A man rushed to the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and attacked Rushdie, 75, as he was being introduced to give a talk on artistic freedom to an audience of hundreds, eyewitnesses said. A New York State Police trooper present at the event took the attacker into custody, police said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/author ... 022-08-12/
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The link is an interesting read :up:

I didn't realize "the Iranian government said in 1998 it would no longer back the fatwa, and Rushdie has lived relatively openly in recent years." Interesting too, but I haven't heard of Rushdie happenings in years.
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In addition to the fatwa, the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses was stabbed to death, just for translating the book. Someone tried to kill the Turkish translator, but ended up killing dozens of others who got trapped in a fire he set. In '89 someone tried to assassinate Rushdie, but ended up killing themself with a homemade bomb. Rushdie was put on a Al-Qaeda hit list a little over a decade ago. All because he wrote a book about Muhammed. Fucking religion. :rolleyes:
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Insane, isn't it?
Religious extremism wouldn't be for me. I just couldn't be bothered spending that much energy on something that really doesn't affect.me.
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Fucking psychos. Think I'll order a copy of his book.
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Extremism of any kind wouldn't be for me. While sometimes one may understand another's motivations, I'm not particularly keen to any form of extremism. The only time I would resort to revolutionarism would be if things really got out of hands. That's not likely to be honest.
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