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Inside Hadi Matar’s Last Days Before the Stabbing Attack on Salman Rushdie
Daily Beast ^ | August 15, 2022 | Pilar Melendez

Posted on 08/15/2022 7:29:40 PM PDT by Conservat1

‘IT’S CHILLING’

Days before his alleged attack on the writer, Hadi Matar wrote a late-night email to his New Jersey gym.

Three days before Hadi Matar allegedly rushed the stage at a literary event to brutally attack British-Indian author Salman Rushdie, the 24-year-old wrote a late-night email to his New Jersey gym to cancel his membership. “Hey this is Hadi,” Matar wrote in an Aug. 9 email to the State of Fitness Boxing Club at 1:31 a.m. “I was going tk [sic] ask if you guys can disable autopay for me right now. As I won’t be able to make it back to the gym right now. Thanks.” The email, obtained by The Daily Beast, also showcased Matar’s avatar: the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran who upheld a call to all Muslims—or a fatwa—to kill Rushdie over three decades ago

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 202208; alikhamenei; assassinationplot; avatar; ayatollah; fatwa; hadimatar; hezbollah; iran; irgc; islamofascism; jihad; khamenei; nasrallah; quds; qudsforce; salmanrushdie; smanrishdie; whoissmanrishdie

1 posted on 08/15/2022 7:29:40 PM PDT by Conservat1
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To: Conservat1

Sounds like it was premeditated.


2 posted on 08/15/2022 7:34:16 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: Conservat1

Chris Wray missed another one while deploying all available agents to Mar a Lago


3 posted on 08/15/2022 7:38:35 PM PDT by sopo
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To: sopo

Don’t forget about the militant deplorable parents at the school board in Loudoun County Virginia and elsewhere. That’s where the real baddies hangout.


4 posted on 08/15/2022 7:59:36 PM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: Conservat1

We still may never know why he committed this heinous act.


5 posted on 08/15/2022 8:39:06 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Where has Biden bin hidin?)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

$$$$$


6 posted on 08/15/2022 9:20:53 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. - Psalm 33:12)
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To: sopo

Also Christopher Wray was too busy collecting phones from Pennsylvania legislator.


7 posted on 08/16/2022 12:56:21 AM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause it’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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To: sopo

It’s not PC to utter anything against the extremists who are on the side of so called “progressives”, the fanatical dangerous racists: Ilhan Omar / TRashida...


8 posted on 08/16/2022 12:11:40 PM PDT by Conservat1
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