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Hadi Matar, the route of the assailant who wanted to kill Salman Rushdie
“When I heard he had survived, I was amazed.” The murderous design of the man who stabbed writer Salman Rushdie is in little doubt and emerges relentlessly and coldly in…
“I learned to grow up without fear”: Salman Rushdie, his confidences since 1989
It was on February 14, 1989 that Rouhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader in Iran, issued the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, asking “all zealous Muslims” to execute the author of the…
Rushdie Attacked: 1989-2022, How Islamists Intimidated Freethinkers
Always re-read Salman Rushdie. In L’Express of July 22, 2015, the writer deplored the “bad lessons” of the affair of the satanic verses in the Western world: “Instead of deducing…
Salman Rushdie stabbed: these personalities still under threat from Islamist fundamentalism
Their movements are restricted. Their attention always alert. Their freedom partly eaten away. Targeted by terrorist organizations or singled out by religious dignitaries, they are under the perpetual threat of…
Salman Rushdie: freedom against Islamist obscurantism, by Anne Rosencher
There is, at the heart of Song of the supporters, a sentence that arouses, when it occurs, a tremendous emotion: “Friend, if you fall, a friend comes out of the…
Salman Rushdie attacked: Islamism against freedom – Le dossier de L’Express
normal Salman Rushdie stabbed, it’s the freedom of creation that we attack. The satanic verses, a novel of doubt and the personal interpretation of religion, has nothing to do with…
Assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie: in Lebanon, embarrassment dominates
The gesture of Hadi Matar, the American assailant of Lebanese origin who stabbed the British writer Salman Rushdie several times in New York on Friday August 12, sparked a wave…
Attack on Salman Rushdie: his attacker pleads “not guilty” to attempted murder
“This was a targeted, unprovoked and premeditated attack on Mr. Rushdie.” The words of Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt leave no room for doubt. The attack suffered by Salman…
AP: Salman Rushdie is no longer on a ventilator and can speak
Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday in the US state of New York when he was about to start a presentation at a literary festival. The attacker was arrested immediately.…
Salman Rushdie has lived much of his life in hiding because of a kill order issued 33 years ago – this is what the Islamic fatwa means
In 1989, Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses caused Iran’s supreme leader to issue a fatwa that contained a death warrant. However, fatwa does not directly mean a religious order…