New Delhi: Famous writer Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday when he was going to give a lecture at an event in Western New York. According to the report, a person rushed towards them and attacked them with a sharp knife. Then Rushdie collapsed on the stage. In fact, because of his writings, he received death threats from Iran in the 1980s.
According to reports, Rushdie was attacked on Friday when he was about to deliver a lecture. Rushdie is an English writer of Indian origin. Let it be known that Salman Rushdie has been threatened with death by Iran for writing the book ‘The Satanic Verses’. According to information, 33 years after receiving the threat, Rushdie was stabbed on a stage in New York on Friday. The book sparked outrage in the Muslim community, with one religious leader even issuing a fatwa on his death. Just a year after the incident, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death. Not only this, the fatwa also talks about giving a reward of more than 3 million dollars to the person who killed Rushdie.
Rushdie was born on 19 June 1947 in a Kashmiri Muslim family in Mumbai. Rushdie, who is known for writing books like The Satanic Verses and Midnight Children, has also been awarded the Booker Prize. He rose to prominence with his second novel, Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Most of his early novels are based on the Indian subcontinent. Let it be known that he had to face the fatwa of the supreme religious leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, for Satanic Verses.
After the publication of The Satanic Verses, his novel faced a lot of opposition from the Muslim community. Let it be known that British American writer Salman Rushdie of Indian origin has been living in America for the past 20 years.