Author Salman Rushdie Is Attacked Onstage in Western New York

I’d feel more sympathy with him if “Satanic Verses” weren’t such a profoundly mediocre novel.

R2 was it? I need to read it

Brave, foolish Bridget for putting herself between Salman and his attacker.

[quote]I’d feel more sympathy with him if “Satanic Verses” weren’t such a profoundly mediocre novel.

I've always intended to read it, more as a cultural touchstone than as an example of literary accomplishment.

I've never been able to bring myself to do so.

When did he get so fat?

Very good R4 I had a giggle.

He divorced the skinny chef.

He’s the OG of cancel culture, long before Dave Chappelle. Why is it that both men have such atrocious security, considering the vitriol directed at them?

Was Dave Chappelle stabbed as well?

No R10 - Chappelle was tackled by a rando with a knife on him, I believe.

it was a knife in a gun type thing.

I had a feeling someone will get him one day.

A bayonet!

Will he get a reward from Iran?

[quote] I need to read it

No. It is worse than Ian McEwan. More worse than Martin Amis.

Try Julian Barnes if you want quality current English literature.

The $4m reward from Iran still stands.

Well he is a writer and this is recognition. Artists gotta get it however they can.

One wonders how this might affect US Iran relations that Biden has been trying to salvage from its dismantling during the Trump administration.

Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, sent an update on his condition shortly before 7 p.m. on Friday, saying Mr. Rushdie was on a ventilator and could not speak. “The news is not good," he said. "Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged

I hope Rushdie survives if for no other reason that, after all this time and so many death threats, this nobody who stabbed him should NOT gain acclaim for his crimes.

I HOPE he doesn’t die from this. All we need is another rise in anti-Muslim hysteria.

THey took him off the ventilator today and he is tallking. He had some company. He sends his love!

Islam is the least tolerant religion in existence. A non-Muslim in a Muslim country couldn't get away with even 1% what immigrants Muslims take for granted in the western world, especially free speech.

Is this going to be our Part 2? The first thread is now full.

According to MSNBC last night, the motive is still unknown. I wonder it will remain a mystery forever?

I get that the media doesn't want to jump to conclusions but, uh, I think we know the motive.

It would be droll though if it turned out that the motive was that Salman had just stolen this guy’s parking spot or cut him in line at the grocery self-checkout earlier in the day.

No, R25. Please begin a part two of the other thread and this one can be left for info about Salman Rushdie instead of the massive debate which was happening on the full thread.

Can we please keep this thread a secret from ConcernedEuropean? I wasn't involved, but his relentlessness was exhausting to keep-on scrolling through!

So when someone finally decided to kill Rushdie after decades of a fatwa, it failed. Pretty pathetic a show but feels symbolic somehow.

Hope Matar rots in prison for a long time.

I was a kid when the fatwa was issued, so I picked up a copy of the book but couldn't find anything overtly controversial. I was a teen though, so my understanding of the world was very different than now and I obviously missed whatever the big hullabaloo was all about.

The motive is not unknown and I hate it when the media does that when it is perfectly obvious what the motive is. He was an extremist in his religious views. It's that whole Shiite vs Sunnie thing. And he has some connection to Iran . He had cash on him. Lots of it. The Iranian Religious leader issued a "fatwah" againt Rushdie 34 years ago. So this nut case decided to act on it..

Sunni not Sunnie.

I agree. They found his Facebook which made it v. v. clear what his motivation was. It's pussyfooting around this.

[quote]Sunni not Sunnie.

Bastard.

R22: all we need is another rise in Muslim extremist violence. What are Muslims so hysterical that they kill over a cartoon? Psychotic drama queens.

Psychotic drama queens = pious men of faith.

Letterman had an interesting take on Rushdie’s work, back in the day:

Shortly after the vicious stabbing of Indian-American author Salman Rushdie, Prof. Nader Hashemi, a specialist on Islam-West Relations, opined on the Iran Podcast that Israel was probably behind the life-threatening attack, as an attempt to derail renewed nuclear negotiations with Iran.

It is crucial, although challenging to distinguish between the two—given the passions understandably aroused by every aspect of the Israel-Palestine dispute—especially when the speakers seem otherwise credible and accomplished.

How’s he doin’?

Update on Rushdie's injuries.

His injuries are horrific. Religion of peace.

New novel

If we didn’t have separation of church and state in the United States, we’d be in the same situation as some of these hard right fundamentalist Islamic countries. These self-described Christian Nationalists in Congress right now are majorly pissed that they can respond to cultural issues like their Muslim crackpot brethren can. Listen to those cunts MTG and Bimboebert…Governors DeSantis and Abbott as well.

Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues issue fatwas and their fanatical followers eagerly enforce them.