“Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,” Andrew Wylie, Rushdie’s agent, said in a statement
A fatwa was issued against Salman Rushdie in 1989 over his book ‘The Satanic Verses.’ But what is a fatwa and how has it affected his life and career?“He crept up real fast behind him with a short-bladed black knife that he immediately then — the first attack was to his throat on the right side,” Carter Byham, 52, told the Los Angeles Times.
Byham said the whole attack lasted about 10 seconds and people rushed the stage to come to Rushdie’s aid. A doctor in the audience gave Rushdie medical treatment until EMS arrived and had the writer airlifted to a hospital, a state police spokesman said.Matar was taken into custody by a state police officer. He is from Fairview, N.J., state police said.
“We ask for your prayers for Salman Rushdie and Henry Reese, and patience as we fully focus on coordinating with police officials following a tragic incident at the Amphitheater today,” they said in a statement. “We thought perhaps it was part of a stunt to show that there’s still a lot of controversy around this author. But it became evident in a few seconds” that it wasn’t, she said.literary free speech organization was “reeling from shock and horror at word of a brutal, premeditated attack” against Rushdie, its former president.
After the fatwa was ordered, the writer went into hiding, moving constantly and always remaining protected by a bodyguard.
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