Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and body onstage during a speech and is expected to lose an eye in the incident is said to be in ventilator according to agents. Rushdie spent years in exile after Iran asked Muslims to kill him because of his literature.
Rushdie’s 75-year-old arm’s nerves were cut, according to his representative, and his liver had been stabbed and wounded.
Rushdie immigrated to the UK after being born in Bombay to a Muslim Kashmiri family.
For his fourth book, “The Satanic Verses,” he has long endured death threats, most notably from Iran’s influential cleric and leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who issued a fatwa urging Muslims to murder the author.
Hadi Matar, a New Jersey resident aged 24 years old, has been named as Salman Rushdie’s assailant. Hadi Matar had a pass to enter the event, according to the New York Police.
At the occasion, he also stated that he was of Lebanese descent. He repeatedly stabbed the author, striking him in the neck and the belly.
It is also discovered that the attacker is a supporter of Iran’s fundamentalist groups. In 1989, Ayatollah Khameini, the revolutionary leader of Iran, issued a death fatwa on Rushdie for his book “The Satanic Verses.” But as of right moment, it’s unclear what motivated the attack.
