The Guardian says that Matar rushed the stage as Salman Rushdie was getting ready to speak at the Chautauqua Institute’s literary pageant as a customer speaker and attacked him with what looked like a sharp object.
Since The Satanic Verses came out in 1988, Salman Rushdie has gotten a lot of bad press. In fact, the then-Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a Fatwa (a ban) against the author. The Fatwa said that Rushdie should be killed. This was finished because the writing of the author was blasphemous.
Politico says that the Iranian government is offering a $3 million reward for the person who kills Salman Rushdie.
All there is to know about the person who is said to have attacked Salman Rushdie
Newsweek says that Hadi Matar was born in California, but that he lived in Fairview, New Jersey. The Associated Press says that the person who attacked Salman Rushdie had a fake New Jersey driver’s license at the time.
Authorities in New York haven’t confirmed Hadi Matar’s reasons for the attack, but his social media posts suggest that he may have been inspired by his alleged admiration for Shia extremism and projects linked to the Iranian government, such as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces set up by Ayatollah Khomeini.
The government has found that Hadi Matar supported these causes, but they haven’t yet proven that he was working for the Iranian government. The suspect is said to have attacked Salman Rusdhie while wearing black clothes and military fatigues. This made people who were there think that the attack was planned.
NBC New York gave the most recent information about how bad the attack was, and it was known that Rushdie was now being ventilated. He has nerve damage in one arm and his liver is hurt. Someone might have moved one of his eyes.
Violence has been linked to both Salman Rushdie and the release of the Satanic Verses in the past. At least 45 deaths have been linked to the uproar that followed the Fatwa, including the murder of Hitoshi Igarashi in 1991. Igarashi was an assistant in comparative literature who had translated Rushdie’s e-book into Japanese.