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Friday, August 12, 2022

Author Salman Rushdie stabbed onstage

Author Salman Rushdie has been injured after being punched and stabbed on stage ahead of a speech he was due to give in Chautauqua, near Buffalo.

The writer, 75, was attacked as he was being introduced to the stage for the CHQ 2022 event before giving a lecture on Friday morning.

He was attending for a discussion of the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression.

8 comments:

  1. Sadly, the Western World has become much like the barbaric societies that go after authors.

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    1. Well, when you import the Third World, you become the Third World…

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    2. We are not like the barbaric societies, we are the barbaric societies. Look no further than the riots in the liberal cities by the BLM, Antifa, etc.

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  2. If you allow unassimable barbarians into your country, it soon tends toward barbarism.
    John in Indy

    Apologies to the Kievan Rus, and the Constantinople Varangians.

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  3. I recon they still have the Fatwa still on him…

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  4. I read "The Satanic Verses" when all the controversy came out. I wanted to know what the shitheads were all up in arms about. Two things. First, his writing style is really odd and it takes a while to be able to read it well. Second, while the ragheads claimed it was about perceived insults to the wives of the prophet mohammed, I suspect the real problem was an allusion to ayatollah khomeini being a bloodthirsty monster.

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  5. "Self important asshat stabbed for being an asshat". We should not mourn the loss of him or his assailant.

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  6. Normal in his world - doesn't matter he did not like it. Not a concern for any of us.

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