CW: Violence
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.
A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
just a gamer doing some bounty hunting :heated-gamer-moment:
I don't know what the hot take is in this situation, but considering how much the American media lionized this guy for standing tough against radical muslamics in Iran, I don't know what to think. I certainly wouldn't want to be stabbed
Just know American kill Iran most beloved general, the crazy one will not stop until they get their pay back
And also letting Israel periodically murder Iranian scientist with total impunity .
Chautauqua, N.Y. (AP) -- Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment lingered. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.
Rushdie dismissed that threat at the time, saying there was “no evidence” of people being interested in the reward.
That year, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa.
Bounties on dissidents are rising with inflation but wages in the US aren't
Sounds like if Rushdie dies the stabber has a bounty to collect. I wonder if they'd actually pay it
yeah so this smells slightly like Psy Op , this in the middle of the Iran Talks , will make the Nuclear agreement all but impossible ..
anything known about the Stabber ?
I hadn’t considered the Iran Deal in relation to this, but you are right. Stinks. Even if it was a Shia Iranian or something who did it, probably goaded into it by spooks at this specific moment.
Either that or Iran no longer gives a fuck and has released all safety’s
Twist: it's someone stabbing him for giving Jesus a smaller dick by not letting Defoe hang his actual monster dong.
mel gibson should have been killed for the way he depicted jewish people
Remember when he played the not-slaveowner plantation owner who just happens to only employ """""""free""""""" black people (totally not slaves) that also happen to live in shacks on the plantation? Probably enraged that he didn't get to use the n-word in the movie.
"they/them" Serbian Milf sounds nice
:bonk:
kidding, sorry goodbye
It’s wordplay on A Serbian Film, a famous shock movie (do not recommend)
But thanks for creeping
That movies wuss/basic and not that shocking .
Watch the Italian shit dubbed film Jungle Holocaust. I raise you edge and honestly its imo a transcendent film
Is he good or just another one of those Richard Dawkins types? I remember he was on Bill Maher a looonng time ago with Hitchens.
Apparently he supported the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia and the occupation of Afghanistan, while doing some weirdo rules worship take where he thought invading Iraq to kill Saddam was good but it was bad that the US just decided to do it outside of the rules based international order.
Also theres some stuff on the wiki page where he supported Amnesty distancing themselves from a guantanamo bay victim and his advocacy org but idk enough about that situation to immediately have a take on it.
Free speech champion with mostly ordinary neoliberal views.
Dates women much, much younger than him. Has been accused of being a little groomy.
Extremely bad take. Every reply is an even worse take.
Writing a book in the '80s that's just 550 pages of hate speech is totally the same thing as being visibly queer in public.
hot take but people shouldn't be stabbed over shit like this, jesus christ.
Agreed. People shouldn't be stabbed over anything. My point is that it's wack to equate these two things.
Who in their right mind considers The Satanic Verses as hate speech? lol.
Let alone 550 pages of it. When I read it I was shocked at how little page-time the Muhammad part takes up.
Considering it's banned for being hate speech in 11 countries, was widely protested for being hate speech, and resulted in a fatwa for that reason, a fair number of people consider it to be hate speech.
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.
I don't know about you, but I'd take any determination of hate speech from a country with blasphemy laws with a grain of salt.
its not Relevant what EmmaGoldmann or Ziege_Bock think about it , its Relevant what Iran and 10 other Countries thinks about it...
I have not Read it ..
It's banned in India, Bangladesh, Sudan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Thailand, Tanzania, Indonesia, Singapore, and Venezuela.
It's not banned in South Africa I can literally buy it right now.
https://www.exclusivebooks.co.za/search?keyword=9780963270702
It was banned during apartheid by the apartheid government in 1988. No longer banned. Ban lifted in 2002 by the ANC
I have not read it, nor do I have any interest in doing so. However, that's not the point. My point is that it's insane to equate animosity towards what people feel is hate speech and homophobia as being functionally the same thing.
dont people have better things to do than incite hatred of muslims 😴
