Posted on 08/13/2022 12:14:48 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
Sir Salman Rushdie is reportedly on a ventilator and may lose an eye after he was stabbed on stage in the US on Friday.
Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie told the New York Times that the news was "not good," adding that Rushdie could not speak, while the nerves in his arm were severed in the attack and his liver was "stabbed and damaged".
The British author, who has lived under the shadow of a fatwa imposed 33 years ago, was appearing at a literary festival in western New York State when the assailant, dressed in black, ran at him from behind and attacked him.
Police confirmed the detention of Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, who they believed was acting alone, but said they had not yet established a motive. The alleged assailant's name is common among Shia Lebanese Muslims.
In a press conference held in Jamestown, New York, police officials alleged the suspect jumped on stage and stabbed the writer at least once in the neck and once in the abdomen.
Witnesses said Rushdie was stabbed “10 to 15 times” and crashed through a stage barrier. He lay in a pool of blood as members of the audience and a police officer tackled the knifeman.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The police is "struggling" to find a motive. But some facts are beginning to appear (also from the Telegraph):
Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect Hadi Matar ‘had fake driving licence using name of Hizbollah leader’
FBI searches home of alleged attacker who had reportedly shared images online of slain Iranian general Qassim Soleimani
The suspect detained over the stabbing of Sir Salman Rushdie is reported to have been carrying a fake driving licence using the name of a Hizbollah leader allied to slain Iranian general Qassim Soleimani....
I'm so tired of the lies.
Some suggestions in the news that Matar had been living in the US for twenty years (bought into the country as a kid).
Does not make things better, does it?
I guess the reason they named the perp is so that the Mooselimbs will know who to send the check to . . .
I like positive thinking. Thanks!
Brings up just how many 2nd generation Iranian-Americans are living some illusion of a life. Also begs the question...where were the police or body guards?
Not to speak of the FBI who is supposed to protect you against terror threats. But I guess they were in hiding due to “right wing insurrectionists”.
He was most likely working for them.
Yes, but the Iranians won’t pay off until Rushdie is dead.
A few months ago I would not even have considerd it, but given what I have read and seen lately I must admit that you have a point. Gruesome....
Rushdie did a funny guest spot on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ where he told Larry to tell chicks he had a fatwa against him.
It was like catnip.
White supremacy? Christian nationalism? Or perhaps he was just angry over the FBI's raid on Trump's mansion?
Sounds almost as bad as Trump’s “Bush tapes”. :-)
Off with his head!
Those FBI you discuss...were busy with the Ray Epps of America...organizing the next ‘brown-shirt’ rally or getting ‘klan-like’ folks dressed in the appropriate hats and shirts.
I hate to suggest it, but the more these gimmicks appear...we all end up going back to the Oklahoma City bombing (1995) and start asking more questions. There’s probably a dozen conspiracy gimmicks that exist from the 1990s...which might need another review.
Um… I met a pali who was brought here in that mid seventies. Worked for the government. This is older than you think. I’m guess carters shah problem which is responsible for every drop of US blood, every dollar spent in the Middle East.
The Shah business and the way that Brit oil delivered him to be the replacement for authority in Iran...is worthy of a TV mini-series.
Around three years ago, I met an Iranian who’d left recently. It is an interesting prospective how the economic cycle in Iran is set to such a low level, and no one wants to hold Iran currency in their hands (continually swapping for any other currency, and getting it beyond the border).
Hadi Matar — obviously a White Supremacist.
Where was Cat Stevens?
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