British-Indian author Salman Rushdie was attacked on a stage in upstate New York: Just before he was about to give a lecture, a man ran up to him and punched or stabbed him.
The incident happened during a lecture in Chautauqua. When the world-famous author was introduced to the public, a man stormed onto the stage and approached the 75-year-old, the AP news agency reported.
A photo shows the author surrounded by first responders after the attack. The condition of the 75-year-old is not yet clear. The perpetrator was overpowered and arrested.
$3 million suspended for author’s murder
Rushdie caused a stir in the late 1980s with his book The Satanic Verses. Some Muslims felt their religious sensibilities were offended by the work. He was expelled from Iran. An organization in Uranium has even offered three million dollars for the murder of the author.
Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini has issued an Islamic legal advisory calling for the murder of Rushdie and everyone involved in the book’s distribution. A Japanese translator was actually murdered later. 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. His breakthrough as an author was with the book “Midnight’s Children” (“Midnight’s Children”), which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1981.
Source: Krone
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