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Author Salman Rushdie attacked on stage
Salman Rushdie is treated after being attacked on a stage. photo
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According to the US news agency AP, the author Salman Rushdie was attacked on a stage in the US state of New York. AP reported the incident in western New York on Friday, citing a reporter of its own who was present.
According to the US news agency AP, the author Salman Rushdie was attacked on a stage in the US state of New York. AP reported the incident in western New York on Friday, citing a reporter of its own who was present.
Because of his work “The Satanic Verses” (1988), Rushdie was once covered with a fatwa calling for his death. Some Muslims felt their religious sensibilities were offended by the work. Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued an Islamic legal opinion calling for the killing of Rushdie and everyone involved in distributing the book. A Japanese translator was later actually killed. Rushdie had to go into hiding and was given police protection.
Rushdie was born in the year of Indian independence in 1947 in the metropolis of Mumbai (then Bombay). He later studied history at King’s College, Cambridge. He had his breakthrough as an author with the book “Midnight’s Children” (“Midnight’s Children”), which was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize in 1981.