According to the Associated Press, Salman Rushdie was stabbed at a Chautauqua, NY event where he was set to deliver a lecture: An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Ch…

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Update 20:00 EST :

Hours after he was attacked and stabbed, author Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm, and an eye he was likely to lose, his agent said.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's not protested for being hate speech. It's protested for being blasphemous. These things are not even remotely the same. You have to be pretty fucking fanatical to think that some historical fiction novel is worth the amount of death and disaster that the book has provoked.