A USA TODAY employee witnessed a man storm the stage in a "bizarre" attack on Salman Rushdie, who suffered an "apparent stab wound to the neck."
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New York police said a state trooper assigned to the event took a suspect into custody after the attack. Rushdie's condition was not immediately known. Andrew Wylie, of The Wylie Agency, confirmed Rushdie was in surgery. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement that Rushdie was alive.
"He is alive. He has been transported, airlifted to safety, but he is an individual who has spent decades speaking truth to power. Someone who's been out there unafraid despite the threats that have followed him his entire adult life, it seems," she said.
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Get well soon!
Maybe it was Kramer! Maybe he thought it was Sal Bass.
How could this happen..😥
Where were the People who shoult protect him….
He should have paid for his own protection.
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hahahahahaha, they say islamophobia and the religion of peace. Wake up
Just like the the Christians.
It is until u desrespect our PROHETS!
PROPHET*
Just peaceful people spreading peace. Nothing new here
There’s a fatwa and bounty to kill him by Islamists
Muslims need to speak out against this ASAP
That purple print really sucks to read
The things you do in your past …catches up with you !
Which is why we need to bring Chinese camps here. Pay up dune kun
I wud be happy if I got caught up by an enemy at 75 and miss me all my previous years- that is like dream come true.
Definitely the culprit must be from the “peaceful religion”
Oh no, Salbass !
I met him in the Mideast
Peaceful religion of peaceful prophet of peaceful god strikes again!
Probably an extremist Muslim but ask greedy. There’s a 3 million dollar bounty
Can’t wait to hear all of the tolerant people start victim blaming and playing apologist about how he had it coming.
What is the FBI doing ?
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It took long time for him to finally get stabbed. Funnily 1947 born got stabbed the year it was India’s 75 years of Inde..ce. Quite a publicity there! Good job!
No Muslim can enter Jannah bec. u deny that Jesus died on the cross for your sins & resurrected.
This is what is meant to be peaceful act by the so-called peaceful people . again proved to be peaceful
And how many dalits were r a ped and murdered yesterday by pis s fools? … now multiply by 3000 years …. dont be ashamed it is legal by manu smriti ….
This will make more people to read his book …