{"id":44286,"date":"2022-08-13T16:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T16:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/johnson-macron-and-albanese-react-to-salman-rushdies-attack-world-leaders-react-to-salman-rushdies-stabbing\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T16:03:45","slug":"johnson-macron-and-albanese-react-to-salman-rushdies-attack-world-leaders-react-to-salman-rushdies-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/johnson-macron-and-albanese-react-to-salman-rushdies-attack-world-leaders-react-to-salman-rushdies-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson, Macron and Albanese react to Salman Rushdie’s attack: World leaders react to Salman Rushdie’s stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Indian-born British author, who has received death threats for his 1988 book, “The Satanic Verses,” is on a ventilator after being stabbed at least twice, including once in the liver. He’s expected to lose one eye, according to his agent.<\/div>\n

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a tweet that he was “appalled” by the incident and expressed support for Rushdie’s recovery.<\/p>\n

“Appalled that Sir Salman Rushdie has been stabbing while exercising a right we should never cease to defend. Right now my thoughts are with his loved ones. We are all hoping he is okay,” Johnson said Friday. <\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron also tweeted his support for Rushdie following the attack. <\/p>\n

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“[For] 33 years, Salman Rushdie has embodied freedom and the fight against obscurantism. He has just been the victim of a cowardly attack by the forces of hatred and barbarism. His fight is our fight; it is universal. Now more than ever, we stand by his side, “Macron said.<\/p>\n

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also condemned the attack, calling it “sickening and cowardly.”<\/p>\n

“This senseless violence against a celebrated author is also an assault on global freedom of expression and deserves unequivocal condemnation. May he have a full recovery,” Albanese added.<\/p>\n

The 75-year-old novelist — the son of a successful Muslim businessman in India — was educated in England, first at Rugby School and later at the University of Cambridge where he received an MA degree in history.<\/p>\n

He later spent a decade under British protection after his fourth novel, “The Satanic Verses,” prompted the supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a religious decree, or fatwa, calling for his death.<\/p>\n

The bounty against Rushdie has never been lifted, however in 1998 the Iranian government sought to distance itself from the fatwa by pledging not to seek to carry it out.<\/p>\n

But in February 2017, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reaffirmed the religious edict. <\/p>\n

And in 2019, Khamenei tweeted that said Khomeini’s fatwa against Rushdie was “solid and irrevocable,” prompting Twitter to place a restriction on his account.<\/p>\n

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