Author Salman Rushdie attacked on stage in New York

Rushdie has confronted threats to his life over his novel ‘The Satanic Verses’, which many Muslims think about blasphemous.

Creator Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked throughout a lecture on the Chautauqua Establishment in Chautauqua, New York, US [Joshua Goodman/AP Photo]

Salman Rushdie, the writer whose writing led to dying threats from Iran within the Eighties, has been attacked as he was about to provide a lecture in southwestern New York State.

An Related Press reporter witnessed a person storm the stage on the Chautauqua Establishment and start punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being launched. The writer was taken or fell to the ground, and the person was restrained.

It stays unclear if Rushdie was severely injured.

Rushdie’s e-book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims think about it to be blasphemous. A yr later, Iran’s late chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued an edict calling for Rushdie’s dying.

Iran has additionally provided over $3m in reward for anybody who kills Rushdie.

The British-Indian writer, who at present lives in america, had been beforehand put underneath police safety due to threats to his life. He has printed dozens of books. The UK knighted him in 2007 which sparked protests from  the Muslim world.

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