Salman Rushdie Suffered “Life Changing Injuries” in Attack, Son Says

According to the agent, who also reported that during his stay in the hospital, Salman was temporarily connected to a ventilator New York Times said shortly after the attack that “Salman is likely to lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; his liver was injured and damaged.”

Suspect in stabbing murder, New Jersey man Hadi Matar, was arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Police are investigating the attack, which came more than 30 years after Iran’s ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a “fatwa” on Salman calling on Muslims worldwide to kill the author over his 1988 novel Satanic poems, which the supreme leader condemned as blasphemy. After the issuance of the religious decree, the author went into hiding for several years. The Iranian government officially supported him after the Ayatollah’s death until 1998.

A preliminary check by law enforcement agencies of the suspect’s social media accounts showed that he is sympathetic to Shiite extremism and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation said. NBC News.

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