Salman Rushdie's suspected attacker charged with attempted murder, pleads not guilty

A preliminary law enforcement review of Mr Matar's social media accounts showed he was sympathetic to Shi'ite extremism and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , according to NBC New York.

FBI officials went to his last listed address, in Fairview, a Bergen County borough just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, on Friday evening, NBC New York reported. Police said on Friday they had not established a motive for the attack on Rushdie, 75, who was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom when the attacker rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist.Several hardline Iranian newspapers poured praise on Saturday on the person who attacked and seriously wounded Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" had drawn death threats from Iran since 1989.

The bankrupt Iranians are unlikely to offer this sucker any money for a botched job

Well in Qld even pleading guilty to killing some one gets you out after 20 Months. How easy is that!!

'He has that constitutional right of presumed innocence,' Mr Barone added. cancelled immediately when caught with blood stained hands committing the heinous act.

Of course he is part of the religion of peace.

Shows how good the US security is when someone was able to take a knife into a venue where the speaker had a 4m fafatq on his head . Disgraceful

Could we please not see the footage of the stage out of respect... SalmanRushdieStabbed

We may never know why this fine example of diversity acted the way he did.

Aaahhh, religion! So loving, inclusive, embracing, honest and caring. As long as you agree with their bullshit.

Religion of peace

Absolutely. First-degree attempted murder at that. He tried to execute the death sentence handed down by some Muslim cleric. This is what Religion does?

He's holding out for murder.

I am quite sure the attack was religiously motivated.

‘Pleads not guilty.’ Absolutely hilarious these people. Dear oh dear...

Ofcourse. This is an serious offence.

Wasn’t even alive when Rushdie pissed off Iran.

Terrorist

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