The references in that section of the book, which include a fictional version of Muhammad, angered Khomeini, who announced the fatwa on Iranian radio and called for Rushdie “to be killed without delay, so that no one will dare insult the sacred beliefs of Muslims henceforth.”įollowing the edict, Rushdie went into hiding and began using the pseudonym Joseph Anton.
Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images Rushdie was stabbed in the neck by the lone assailant and taken to the hospital. Author Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage before a planned speech at the Chautauqua Institution in Upstate New York on August 12, 2022. The novel, which centers around two protagonists who survived a plane crash after it was hijacked by two Sikh terrorists, describes a dream had by one of the characters that’s considered to be a revisionist history of how Islam was founded, according to Britannica. Soon after Rushdie published the novel, Ayatollah Khomeini, then the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa, or edict, against the author calling for his death in February 1989. The attacker’s motive wasn’t immediately clear but Rushdie has been receiving death threats since the late 1980s after he published “The Satanic Verses,” a controversial fantasy novel that some Muslims considered to be blasphemous over its references to Islam. The 75-year-old Indian-born author was slated to talk at the Chautauqua Institution in Upstate New York, about 75 miles south of Buffalo, when a lone attacker stormed the stage and stabbed him shortly after he was introduced around 11 a.m., police said. Salman Rushdie, the author with a $3 million bounty on his head for his 1988 book “The Satanic Verses,” once had a fatwa issued against him before he was stabbed in the neck by a masked assailant on Friday. We must stand up to Iran’s threats to free speech Oscar nominee says Salman Rushdie writes him every day after near-fatal fall
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