Sir Salman Rushdie: Satanic Verses author is on a ventilator and may lose eye after he was stabbed on stage, says agent

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The Indian-born British author was being introduced to the audience ahead of giving a lecture in New York state, when a man stormed the stage

Witness Pilar Pintagro told Sky News:"We were very scared because the first place was in the neck and that's where the blood started to splash everywhere, and then he stabbed him in the shoulders and continued stabbing several times because it was so fast.

Another witness Julia Mineeva Braun told Sky News that as Sir Salman was being introduced"all of a sudden from the left-hand side of the stage a short man, all in black, ran out, and he approached Mr Rushdie". Some of the scenes in the 1988 book depict a character modelled on the Prophet Muhammad and this was met with anger from some members of the Muslim community in the UK.

 

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It'll be one of those those radical Buddists nutters .....oh..err...not one of THEM again 🤦

Religion of peace strikes again…

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Violence towards writers, as w/ any artist shouldn’t not be tolerated! I anticipate reading about this community’s REBUKE of violence towards artists. We can agree that artists transcend notions of violence b/c they produce ART, in this case LITERATURE.

He signed his fate 34 years ago. Like they saying goes “play with fire and you will get burned”

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