Author Salman Rushdie, 75, was stabbed Friday just before he was about to give a lecture in western New York, according to an Associated Press reporter who allegedly witnessed the incident.
“The Satanic Verses” author was being introduced when a man stormed a lecture stage at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., and began punching and stabbing him, said the AP. While Rushdie was on the floor, the man who allegedly attacked him was restrained.
A native of Mumbai, India, Rushdie was the subject of death threats from Iran in the 1980s due to his writing and the late leader Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death. More than $3 million in reward money has been offered for anyone who kills the author.
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran and Pakistan since 1988 and “many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous,” said the AP. According to i news, Hitoshi Igarashi Rusdhie’s Japanese translator was stabbed to death in July 1991.
Rushdie has written a total of 13 novels as well as short stories and is the winner of numerous literary prizes.
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