Posted on 02/07/2025 9:39:06 AM PST by george76
Hadi Matar finally went on trial Tuesday for attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie back in Aug. 2022. There is little, if any, doubt about Matar’s guilt .. for he stabbed Rushdie multiple times in full view of a shocked crowd at the Chautauqua festival. .. Barone managed to delay the trial for over a year.
Now that it has begun, both Barone and his opposite number, Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt, seem curiously intent on preventing any discussion of Matar’s motive. Matar tried to kill the man who, at the time of the stabbing had carried for 33 years the most famous bounty on his head since the days of the Wild West.
It was on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 1989, that Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called for Rushdie to be killed for supposedly blaspheming against Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses." By 2022, Iran’s bounty on Rushdie’s head was $3 million. Without Khomeini’s death fatwa on Rushdie, Matar wouldn’t have tried to kill him, and there would be no trial. Nevertheless, neither the prosecution nor the defense wants any talk of that as Matar is tried.
Matar himself was upfront about why he stabbed Rushdie.
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Schmidt, however, insists all that is irrelevant
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isn’t examination of motive ordinarily a staple of murder trials? ... . But Barone is only too happy to leave Matar’s motives out of the trial, as he wanted jurors screened for dislike of Islam.
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Salwan Momika, an Iraqi critic of Islam, was murdered in Sweden for burning the Qur’an. . The trial of Hadi Matar carries extraordinarily important implications for the future of the freedom of speech and freedom of expression in the West.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
DUD USAID PROVIDE THAT BOUNTY???
DID
at a minimum, at least indirectly.
You have to wonder what a “hate crime” really is and if it depends upon your religion, ethnicity, or cultural background. I for one this that this was clearly based on religion, but that is no excuse in a court of law.
Fatwa.
Chautauqua County New York.
Mayville, NY
A friend’s wife was from there. I went to their wedding there.
I bought a used pickup from someone who lived there.
Nowhere land near Erie Pennsylvania.
“He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody”
BTT
“isn’t examination of motive ordinarily a staple of murder trials?” No, that’s a TV thing. It’s not necessary for a prosecutor to prove a motive. The running from the audience and stabbing the author in the eye is good enough to convict.
That was the first thing that popped into my mind.. (Seinfeld) d;^)
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