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Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after he was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen as he was about to give a lecture in New York state on Friday, according to police.

A man rushed to the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and attacked Rushdie as he was being introduced to give a talk on artistic freedom to an audience of hundreds, an eyewitness said.

“I was shocked and stunned, you know, shocked and stunned. I didn’t believe what I was seeing. My first reaction was this has to be some kind of demonstration or stunt or something. And then, no, it got it got so real, so fast. And then it was terrifying.” In 1989, a year after the book’s publication, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran’s supreme leader, pronounced a fatwa, or religious edict, calling upon Muslims to kill the novelist for blasphemy.

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Any update on the murder of Al Jazeera journo Shireen Abu Akleh?

'ordered killed', was he killed before?

The other qsn is, who stabbed him?

How could the security around Salman Rushdie be so relaxed, everybody knew that extremists would like to get hold of him one way or the other. One would expected to have a armed bodyguard on stage while he is delivering his lectures. How safe is the American president.

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