Author Salman Rushdie Attacked on Lecture Stage in New York

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Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

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A man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced.

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The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.

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Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous.

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A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.

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Iran has also offered over $3 million in reward for anyone who kills Rushdie.

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Ahmed Salman Rushdiewas born in Bombay on 19 June 1947 during the British Raj, into an Indian Kashmiri Muslim family.

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He is the son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie, a Cambridge-educated lawyer-turned-businessman, and Negin Bhatt, a teacher.

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Rushdie was knighted for services to literature in the Queen's Birthday Honours on 16 June 2007.

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