Politics
Author Salman Rushdie Stabbed on Lecture Stage in New York
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous.
Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture on Aug. 12, 2022.
Photographer: Joshua Goodman/AP Photo
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Chautauqua, N.Y. (AP) -- Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’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.
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.