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[cormack12]

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62524922

Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses, has been attacked on stage in New York state.

The Booker Prize winner was speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution at the time.

New York State Police said a male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Mr Rushdie and an interviewer.
"Rushdie suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck," the police statement said.

The author was transported by helicopter to a local hospital. His condition is not currently known.

 

[F0rneus]

Fucking hell, I hope he doesn't die.

 

[Jennings]

I thought he was playing with fire recently by dredging up his long-existing fatwa and downplaying it with Larry David on a popular show like Curb Your Enthusiasm. It was a funny episode, but I sat there worried for him IRL the whole time. Some individuals really shouldn't be informed or reminded of stuff like that. I certainly hope this event is not related to the fatwa, but a part of me is willing to jump to the conclusion that it is.

 

[TheDreadBaron]

Holy shit, can't imagine living with that fear hanging over you for that long, living in secret locations etc, and something like this finally happens poor bastard.

 

[Peggies]

 

[Kilau]

I hope he makes it.

 

[FunkMiller]

Fuck's sake. Religious fruitcake scumbags

 

[DeepEnigma]

In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.

Author Salman Rushdie stabbed before New York speech

Author Salman Rushdie was reportedly stabbed before giving a speech at the Chautauqua Institution in New York on Friday when an unidentified man stormed the stage.

www.foxnews.com

SMH

 

[Airbus Jr]

huh what happened here

ok now i figures why people are after him because of the book he wrote in 1988 but seriously assault like this are not aceptable in any kind of form

 

[It's all in the wrist]

You'd think humanity would shed this kind of ideological hatred by now. This is incredibly sad.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Fuck's sake. Religious fruitcake scumbags

That's wacko religious people for ya.

I cant even comprehend how someone could be brainwashed into being extremely religious, and then to top it off go after people (ie. kill a dude like Rushdie) due to his religious views with bounties on their heads.

Imagine being an avocado addict or a BMW lover. There's going to be people in the world who hate avocados or thinks Mercedes are 10x better cars. Never seen someone killed over it.

But you cant criticize religion too much or else you're branded a hater. I guess as long as only 1% of religious people are crazy enough to do dumb shit, it flies under the radar as good enough.

 

[AlteredForms]

The Ayatollah must be punching the air somewhere. Is the fatwa still in place on Rushdie's head?

 

[DeepEnigma]

That's wacko religious people for ya.

I cant even comprehend how someone could be brainwashed into being extremely religious, and then to top it off go after people (ie. kill a dude like Rushdie) due to his religious views with bounties on their heads.

Imagine being an avocado addict or a BMW lover. There's going to be people in the world who hate avocados or thinks Mercedes are 10x better cars. Never seen someone killed over it.

But you cant criticize religion too much or else you're branded a hater. I guess as long as only 1% of religious people are crazy enough to do dumb shit, it flies under the radar as good enough.

People are also being radicalized on a massive scale politically, and they're doing the same with a possible large scale boiling point in the next few months or years.

 

[Lone Wolf]

That's wacko religious people for ya.

I cant even comprehend how someone could be brainwashed into being extremely religious, and then to top it off go after people (ie. kill a dude like Rushdie) due to his religious views with bounties on their heads.

Imagine being an avocado addict or a BMW lover. There's going to be people in the world who hate avocados or thinks Mercedes are 10x better cars. Never seen someone killed over it.

But you cant criticize religion too much or else you're branded a hater. I guess as long as only 1% of religious people are crazy enough to do dumb shit, it flies under the radar as good enough.

People kill over sports rivalries.

Ideologies drive people to do insane things. Religion is apart of that.

 

[Jennings]

The Ayatollah must be punching the air somewhere. Is the fatwa still in place on Rushdie's head?

Yes, and it always will be. Only the person who isssued it can rescind it, but that dude is long dead. Iran has since said that although they will no longer enforce it (as of 1998), it's always going to be in place.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

People kill over sports rivalries.

Ideologies drive people to do insane things. Religion is apart of that.

True. But dumb shit like that comes from drunks at stadiums egging each other on.

How often in life have you ever heard of a bounty of $3M being put on someone's head due to sports?

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Fucking clows, can't deal with someone writing a fairy tale about a shitty religion. I hate religion with a passion.

 

[Daneel Elijah]

A man born in a country who do not exist anymore( seriously I looked up his wikipedia page and he was born in india when it still was a british state! )got stab probably for things he wrote during the Cold war. Hope he make it

 

[lem0n]

Fucking clows, can't deal with someone writing a fairy tale about a shitty religion. I hate religion with a passion.

The worst cancer to infect this earth

 

[FunkMiller]

The worst cancer to infect this earth

 

[AJUMP23]

I hope he recovers.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

I hope he recovers, although in all honesty neck stabs -- at least ones you hear about -- tend to often be fatal.

The world is a fucked up place...

 

[DragoonKain]

Generally speaking, the premise of killing or attacking someone because you don't like the things they say is becoming more accepted by a large swath of society, not less. And that is a really bad trend.

Hope he survives.

 

[Lone Wolf]

The worst cancer to infect this earth

 

[winjer]

The world would be a much better place without religious fanaticism.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Generally speaking, the premise of killing or attacking someone because you don't like the things they say is becoming more accepted by a large swath of society, not less. And that is a really bad trend.

Well said. Society at large is regressing in this very important regard.

 

[DeepEnigma]

The world would be a much better place without religious fanaticism.

Humans will always find a vice. Non "religious" do just the same with their own ideological fanaticism.

Humans, eh?

 

[Ionian]

He's been under a fatwa since I was a child.

This is monstrous.

I've been stabbed, shit ain't no joke, I assure you.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Humans will always find a vice. Non "religious" do just the same with their own ideological fanaticism.

Humans, eh?

Pretty much. Tribalism, groupthink, and fanaticism (and the aggression and violence that comes with those) were part of human civilizations long before the establishment of the dominant Abrahamic religions.

 

[cheststrongwell]

Wild. Hope he pulls through. People that resort to violence because their feefees get hurt, weather religious or political, are a cancer on civilized society. Grow a pair and learn that not everyone needs to believe the same things you do. Useless pussies.

 

[It's all in the wrist]

True. But dumb shit like that comes from drunks at stadiums egging each other on.

How often in life have you ever heard of a bounty of $3M being put on someone's head due to sports?

Dave Chappelle was attacked a few weeks ago. Crazies exist across the spectrum.

 

[Wheeljack539]

Humans will always find a vice. Non "religious" do just the same with their own ideological fanaticism.

Humans, eh?

As long as people need to feel good about themselves in some fashion a division will always form in turn.

 

[DeepEnigma]

As long as people need to feel good about themselves in some fashion a division will always form in turn.

Not truly feeling good about themselves, but external masks, crutches, etc... But yeah.

 

[HoodWinked]

I only really know this because of Curb your Enthusiasm, and because of this, the fatwa felt completely toothless considering how they essentially mocked it. Anyways with people becoming violent over nothing like Will Smith, Chapelle attacker, blm riots, Kavanagh protests, violence has become more and more normalized so makes sense that they'd act now.

 

[pramod]

No information on the stabber?

 

[12Goblins]

Generally speaking, the premise of killing or attacking someone because you don't like the things they say is becoming more accepted by a large swath of society, not less. And that is a really bad trend.

Hope he survives.

Citation needed

 

[ClosBSAS]

jesus, i knew he wasnt liked by some ppl but fuck me, stabbed in the neck...tahts a little ttoo much,. i love his shit.

 

[Kenpachii]

So what makes this guy such a target what did he wrote or do?

 

[FunkMiller]

So what makes this guy such a target what did he wrote or do?

Had the temerity to feature the Prophet Mohammad in a book called The Satanic Verses. That's it.

 

[SlimySnake]

So what makes this guy such a target what did he wrote or do?

In 1988, he wrote a book called satanic verses in which one of the fictional character hallucinates the life of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. In which, Mohammed initially chooses Hindu dieties instead of the Abrahamic religions (Moses/Jesus) as Islam's background before changing his mind and blaming the error on the devil.

The book is a FICTIONAL novel about two dudes who survive a plane crash and turn into angels and demons. And muslims heard about that one FICTIONAL passage about Mohammed and threw a fit. Thats it. Thats all there is to it. Absolutely insane that people cannot handle something so simple.

 

[chromhound]

Salman Rushdie is on ventilator and may lose an eye after attack, agent says – as it happened

Author has surgery after he was stabbed in the neck as he prepared to give speech in Chautauqua, in upstate New York

www.theguardian.com

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Here's the assailant.

NJ man, Matar Hadi, with sympathies toward Iran arrested in stabbing of Salman Rushdie - Today Breeze

A New Jersey man with sympathies toward the Iranian government was arrested and accused of stabbing famed novelist Salman Rushdie on Friday, according to law

www.todaybreeze.com

A New Jersey man with sympathies toward the Iranian government was arrested and accused of stabbing famed novelist Salman Rushdie on Friday, according to law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation.

Matar Hadi, 24, was arrested after he stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York and allegedly stabbed the author in the neck.

Sources told the post that an initial investigation suggests Hadi is sympathetic to the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard

 

[DragoonKain]

In 1988, he wrote a book called satanic verses in which one of the fictional character hallucinates the life of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. In which, Mohammed initially chooses Hindu dieties instead of the Abrahamic religions (Moses/Jesus) as Islam's background before changing his mind and blaming the error on the devil.

The book is a FICTIONAL novel about two dudes who survive a plane crash and turn into angels and demons. And muslims heard about that one FICTIONAL passage about Mohammed and threw a fit. Thats it. Thats all there is to it. Absolutely insane that people cannot handle something so simple.

Tell me about it, and we see it all the time now in various topics. This mindset is psychopathic no matter what topic it's about, it's a shame so many have lost sight of that.

 

[VN1X]

No matter the motivation/justification: stabbing people is bad mmkay?

 

[DKehoe]

Hope he's ok. It's horrible that someone has had to live so much of their life with these kind of threats hanging over them.

 

[12Goblins]

Salman Rushdie: Author on ventilator and unable to speak, agent says

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

www.bbc.com

Terrible

 

[ManaByte]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

In 1988, he wrote a book called satanic verses in which one of the fictional character hallucinates the life of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. In which, Mohammed initially chooses Hindu dieties instead of the Abrahamic religions (Moses/Jesus) as Islam's background before changing his mind and blaming the error on the devil.

The book is a FICTIONAL novel about two dudes who survive a plane crash and turn into angels and demons. And muslims heard about that one FICTIONAL passage about Mohammed and threw a fit. Thats it. Thats all there is to it. Absolutely insane that people cannot handle something so simple.

When some people have already laid a stake in the sand supporting their religion at all costs (to the death), you're giving way too much credit for those people to think rationally at Rushdie's novel.

I never knew it was about that until you told me.

All the media would tell is he's got a bullseye on his head pissing off Muslims. I thought his book was him ragging on Muslims and Mohammed for 100s of pages, because who the fuck who go hyperspastic at a fictitious story where it seems like he only talks about it here or there...... oh shit. I made the same mistake. Giving people too much credit.

 

[Ironbunny]

That stabber looks like somene at age 40-45.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Here's the assailant.

NJ man, Matar Hadi, with sympathies toward Iran arrested in stabbing of Salman Rushdie - Today Breeze

A New Jersey man with sympathies toward the Iranian government was arrested and accused of stabbing famed novelist Salman Rushdie on Friday, according to law

www.todaybreeze.com

A New Jersey man with sympathies toward the Iranian government was arrested and accused of stabbing famed novelist Salman Rushdie on Friday, according to law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation.

Matar Hadi, 24, was arrested after he stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York and allegedly stabbed the author in the neck.

Sources told the post that an initial investigation suggests Hadi is sympathetic to the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard

Fire him into the sun.