Salman Rushdie’s agent confirmed that after being stabbed in the neck and trunk on August 12 while ascending to a platform in a CHAUTAUQUA Literature hall in New York to deliver a lecture on artistic freedom, he lost the sight in one eye and was rendered unable to use one of his hands. Rushdie is a British author of Indian descent. He was born to Muslim parents in India 75 years ago.
Hadi Matar, a Lebanese-American writer, 24, was unable to complete the day after publishing his book The Satanic Verses, or “Satanic Verses,” which offends Islam and for which he had previously received death threats from Iran in the 1980s.
In an interview with “Al Arabiya. net” that was published yesterday, Saturday, in English on the newspaper online, his British agent Andrew Wylie, 74, told the Spanish newspaper El Pais that the attack on Rushdie “was barbaric (.
(And that Hadi Matar) inflicted three significant wounds in the writer’s neck, one of his hands went paralysed due to the arm severing the nerves, and he has 15 additional injuries in his chest, “as he described it. The writer also lost one of his eyes.
The agent, Willie, refused to say whether Rushdie was still in the hospital and stated: “The most important thing is that the writer is alive,” adding in the interview that he spoke to Rushdie about the possibility of such an attack in the past. However, the main danger Rushdie faced after years of issuing a fatwa of his killing is from a random person who comes out of nowhere and attacks him unexpectedly. As a result, he cannot defend himself from an unanticipated attack.
What happened was like the killing of John Lennon almost “in reference to the killing of the British” Beatles “singer. Shot on December 8, 1980, in the hallway of his Manshan, New York, apartment.
Hadi Matar declared his innocence from the charges of attempted murder and second-degree assault when he appeared before the court one week after his attempt to kill the novelist. He was called to a brief hearing in a boycott court, despite being arrested at the same stabbing scene and during the attack on the writer. Chutakua was charged with one count of second-degree assault and one count of attempted second-degree murder on the basis of an indictment returned by a grand jury.
Salman Rushdie could no longer use his hand after losing vision in one of his eyes.
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