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 Salman Rushdie breaks silence after shocking knife attack Salman Rushdie calls changes to Roald Dahl books ‘absurd censorship’
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