{"id":44167,"date":"2022-08-13T11:28:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/author-salman-rushdie-on-ventilator-after-new-york-stabbing\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:28:47","slug":"author-salman-rushdie-on-ventilator-after-new-york-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/author-salman-rushdie-on-ventilator-after-new-york-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-key=\"article\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">CHAUTAUQUA, NY (AP) \u2014 Salman Rushdie, whose novel \u201cThe Satanic Verses\u201d drew death threats from Iran&#8217;s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">A bloodied Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery.  His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Police identified the attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey.  He was awaiting arraignment following his arrest at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and rereat center where Rushdie was scheduled to speak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Matar was born in the United States to Lebanese parents who emigrated from Yaroun, a border village in southern Lebanon, Mayor Ali Tehfe told The Associated Press.  His birth was a decade after \u201cThe Satanic Verses\u201d was first published. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">The motivation for the attack was unclear, State Police Maj.  Eugene Staniszewski said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Rushdie&#8217;s 1988 novel was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims, who saw a character as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, among other objections.  The book was banned in Iran, where the late leader Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie&#8217;s death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Iran&#8217;s theocratic government and its state-run media assigned no rationale for Friday&#8217;s assault.  In Tehran<!-- -->some Iranians interviewed Saturday by the AP praised the attack on an author they believe tarnished the Islamic faith, while others worried it would further isolate their country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">An AP reporter witnessed the attacker confront Rushdie on stage<!-- --> and stab or punch him 10 to 15 times as the author was being introduced.  Dr.  Martin Haskell, a physician who was among those who rushed to help, described Rushdie&#8217;s wounds as \u201cserious but recoverable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Event moderator Henry Reese, 73, a co-founder of an organization that offers residencies to writers facing persecution, was also attacked.  Reese suffered a facial injury and was treated and released from a hospital, police said.  He and Rushdie had planned to discuss the United States as a refuge for writers and other artists in exile.<\/p>\n<div data-key=\"media-placeholder\">\n<div class=\"YoutubeEmbed youtubeEmbed\">\n<div class=\"vertical-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" id=\"youtube-wrapper-PAxFBjABymY-article\"><img class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"\" alt=\"youtube video thumbnail\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">A state trooper and a county sheriff&#8217;s deputy were assigned to Rushdie&#8217;s lecture, and state police said the trooper made the arrest.  But after the attack, some longtime visitors to the center questioned why there was n&#8217;t tighter security for the event, given the decades of threats against Rushdie and a bounty on his head offering more than $3 million to anyone who killed him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Matar, like other visitors, had obtained a pass to enter the Chautauqua Institution&#8217;s 750-acre grounds, Michael Hill, the institution&#8217;s president, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">The suspect&#8217;s attorney, public defender Nathaniel Barone, said he was still gathering information and declined to comment.  Matar&#8217;s home was blocked off by authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Rabbi Charles Savenor was among the roughly 2,500 people in the audience for Rushdie&#8217;s appearance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">The assailant ran onto the platform \u201cand started pounding on Mr.  Rushdie.  At first you&#8217;re like, &#8216;What&#8217;s going on?&#8217;  And then it became abundantly clear in a few seconds that he was being beaten,\u201d Savenor said.  He said the attack lasted about 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Another spectator, Kathleen James, said the attacker was dressed in black, with a black mask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">\u201cWe thought perhaps it was part of a stunt to show that there&#8217;s still a lot of controversy around this author.  But it became evident in a few seconds\u201d that it wasn&#8217;t, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Amid gasps, spectators were ushered out of the outdoor amphitheater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">The stabbing reverberated from the tranquil town of Chautauqua to the United Nations, which issued a statement expressing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres&#8217; horror and stressing that free expression and opinion should not be met with violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Iran&#8217;s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday&#8217;s attack, which led an evening news bulletin on Iranian state television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">From the White House, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan described the attack as \u201creprehensible\u201d and said the Biden administration wished Rushdie a quick recovery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">\u201cThis act of violence is appalling,\u201d Sullivan said in a statement.  \u201cWe are thankful to good citizens and first responders for helping Mr.  Rushdie so quickly after the attack and to law enforcement for its swift and effective work, which is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Rushdie has been a prominent spokesman for free expression and liberal causes, and the literary world recoiled at what Ian McEwan, a novelist and Rushdie&#8217;s friend, described as \u201can assault on freedom of thought and speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">\u201cSalman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world,\u201d McEwan said in a statement.  \u201cHe is a fiery and generous spirit, a man of immense talent and courage and he will not be deterred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said the organization didn&#8217;t know of any comparable act of violence against a literary writer in the US Rushdie was once president of the group, which advocates for writers and free expression. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">After the publication of \u201cThe Satanic Verses,\u201d often-violent protests erupted across the Muslim world against Rushdie, who was born in India to a Muslim family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">At least 45 people were killed in riots over the book, including 12 people in Rushdie&#8217;s hometown of Mumbai.  In 1991, a Japanese translator of the book was stabbed to death and an Italian translator survived a knife attack.  In 1993, the book&#8217;s Norwegian publisher was shot three times and survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Khomeini died the same year he issued the fatwa calling for Rushdie&#8217;s death.  Iran&#8217;s current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, never issued a fatwa of his own withdrawing the edict, though Iran in recent years has n&#8217;t focused on the writer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, which included a round-the-clock armed guard.  Rushdie emerged after nine years of seclusion and cautiously resumed more public appearances, maintaining his outspoken criticism of religious extremism overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">In 2012, Rushdie published a memoir, \u201cJoseph Anton,\u201d about the fatwa.  The title came from the pseudonym Rushdie used while in hiding.  He said during a New York talk the same year memoir came out that the terrorism was really the art of fear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">\u201cThe only way you can defeat it is by deciding not to be afraid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Anti-Rushdie sentiment has lingered long after Khomeini&#8217;s decree.  The Index on Censorship, an organization promoting free expression, said money was raised to boost the reward for his killing as recently as 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">An AP journalist who went to the Tehran office of the 15 Khordad Foundation, which put up the millions for the bounty on Rushdie, found it closed Friday night on the Iranian weekend.  No one answered calls to its listed telephone number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Rushdie rose to prominence with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel \u201cMidnight&#8217;s Children,\u201d but his name became known around the world after \u201cThe Satanic Verses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Widely regarded as one of Britain&#8217;s living writers, Rushdie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 and earlier this year was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honor, a royal accolade for people who have made a major contribution to the arts , science or public life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Organizers of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which opens Saturday in Scotland and is one of the world&#8217;s largest literary gatherings, are encouraging guest authors to read a sentence from Rushdie&#8217;s work at the start of their events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">\u201cWe are inspired by his courage and are thinking of him at this difficult time,\u201d festival director Nick Barley said.  \u201cThis tragedy is a painful reminder of the fragility of things we hold dear and a call to action: We won&#8217;t be intimidated by those who would use violence rather than words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">The Chautauqua Institution, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York, has served for more than a century as a place for reflection and spiritual guidance.  Visitors don&#8217;t pass through metal detectors or undergo bag checks.  Most people leave the doors to their century-old cottages unlocked at night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">The center is known for its summertime lecture series, where Rushdie has spoken before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">At an evening vigil, a few hundred residents and visitors gathered for prayer, music and a long moment of silence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">\u201cHate can&#8217;t win,\u201d one man shouted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Associated Press journalists John Wawrow in Chautauqua;  Jennifer Peltz, Hillel Italie and Edith Lederer in New York City;  Carolyn Thompson in Buffalo, New York;  Michael Hill in Albany, New York;  Ted Shaffrey in Fairview, New Jersey;  Nasser Karimi and Mehdi Fattahi in Tehran, Iran;  Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut;  and Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAUTAUQUA, NY (AP) \u2014 Salman Rushdie, whose novel \u201cThe Satanic Verses\u201d drew death threats from Iran&#8217;s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. 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