After being stabbed, Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator; attacker named

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• Aug 13, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

 Digital Desk: At a literary event in New York, US,
on Friday, author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and abdomen. The
author, who is 75 years old, is on a ventilator and could lose an eye. His
attacker has been named by police.

Salman
Rushdie may lose an eye and has serious nerve damage in one arm, according to
the author's agency. He also has liver problems. His agent, Andrew Wylie, emailed
him, saying, "The news is not good." The nerves in Salman's arm were
cut, his liver was pierced, and it is possible that he may lose one of his
eyes.

Hadi
Matar, 24, of New Jersey, according to the New York State Police, was his
assailant. According to officials, "the attack's motivation is still
unknown."

Preliminary
analysis of Matar's social media accounts revealed his support for "Shia
extremism" and the objectives of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard
(IRGC).

Hadi
Matar stormed the stage, attacked Mr. Rushdie, and stabbed him numerous times.
The interviewer, Henry Reese, was also hurt in the incident and required head
surgery.

Social
media posts and videos saw individuals rushing the stage and knocking the
suspect to the ground before a trooper on duty at the event took him into
custody.

Prior
to the arrival of emergency first responders, a doctor in the audience provided
medical assistance. After then, Mr. Rushdie was flown to the hospital for an
urgent operation.

Rushdie
was scheduled to speak at the Chautauqua Institution outside of New York City
when the tragedy happened. The audience, which contained about 2,500
individuals, was afterwards cleared out. The Chautauqua Institution released a
statement after the attack that read, "What many of us witnessed today was
a brutal act of hate that rocked us to our core."

Jake
Sullivan, the national security adviser for the US, called the incident
"appalling" and "reprehensible." The Biden-Harris
administration as a whole is hoping for a quick recovery for him. According to
Mr. Sullivan's statement. In addition to denouncing the stabbing, New York
Governor Kathy Hochul praised Rushdie as "an individual who has spent
decades speaking truth to power."

Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born British citizen who has spent the
last 20 years living in the US, has endured threats since his 1988 book The
Satanic Verses was published. Some religious leaders viewed the book as
offensive to the Prophet Mohammed.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran, put a bounty on
his head and called for his murder. In the UK, he spent over ten years hiding
and moving homes while under police protection. After the Iranian government
said in 1998 that it would not implement the "fatwa" or edict, Mr.
Rushdie started to come out of his life of hiding. Rushdie has resided in the
US from the year 2000.