Why was Salman Rushdie attacked? | The Hindu
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- Salman Rushdie’s life changed forever in 1989, when he had a fatwa slapped on him
The award-winning author has spent over three decades looking over his shoulder, going into hiding, and later making public appearances
But the threats to his life hadn’t stopped. Now, he is battling for his life in a US hospital.
On August 12, Rushdie was stabbed several times at a literary event in New York. He suffered severed nerves in an arm, damage to his liver and is also likely to lose an eye.
Salman Rushdie was born in Mumbai in June 1947. He studied at Cambridge in England, before he became a full-time writer
Rushdie shot to fame for his book Midnight’s Children. The magic-realism novel won him the Booker Prize in 1981.
In 1988, Rushdie published his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses. Some Muslims considered the novel disrespectful of the Prophet Mohammed.
The novel sparked a fatwa, or a religious decree. The Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for Rushdie’s death
This led to violent protests in Tehran, Lebanon, England, Pakistan, and India. On February 24th, 1989, twelve people were killed in Mumbai when police fired at protesters
Some of his publishers and translators were also attacked and killed. Rushdie was forced to go underground, as a bounty was put on his head, which remains till today.
He was granted police protection by Britain and he spent nearly a decade in hiding. In 1998, Iran declared it would not support his assassination.
However, the fatwa failed to stifle Rushdie’s writing. He went on to write several internationally-acclaimed books.
Writers, activists, and public leaders have criticized the latest attack on Rushdie. The Iranian government, however, has denied any involvement in the assault.
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Religion of peace sows peace in world like this 😂😂
We might be gradually moving to a more developed and modernised/ or so called civilised society but practically we still stay at the same place, share the same conservative thoughts and people who commit such crimes are one of us. It's so sad to see such things happening even in the 21st Century. Get well soon Rushdie Sir ✨
Every thinking is to be respected and not judged by one lens of religion, if we want humanity to progress.
Why Rushdie was attacked?
And these muslim talks about freedom of speech when they have to say something about other religions great 🤦🏻♀️
I think this channel has only half GB of RAM and outdated processor
Extremism has no religion but hurts every religion
Intellectual are a easy target for the religious fanatics in all religions. Sadly for some Indians who couldn’t survive.
Because he criticised Islam!
"If you can't decide the religion of Terrorist today, Terrorist will decide your religion tomorrow"
Nice marketing strategies dude
Good
I have to read santanic verse to see what it says
of course politics has nothing to do with
If Rushdie insulted Islam he insulted all the other religions too. If someone doesn't believe in my statement they can read his books and find the fact for themselves. But no other religions like Hinduism Christianity Jewism ...objected his works but some fundamentalist muslims did the extreme things. Why !!!!?.......all religions are equally true and worth all our respect and honour. Remember Rushdie is doing a great service to Mohammedanism. The coming generations will realise it and praise him.
Peace be with all
Khomeini was a real Debbie Downer
Listen here, read the last sentence you said and think really hard about it. And I mean REALLY hard and then ask yourself self why and if you come up with no answer well that’s the answer. If you do come up with an answer ask why again for the answer you got from the first why until you keep hit a wall and realize something.
We've evolved as human beings, come so far as living beings in this world. Minute part of the universe, yet filled with hatred, jealousy, greed, ignorance and unable to remove social evils such as religions. Created by humans like us, ages back. Now that we have advanced so far as humans, sad to see such incidents in the world. All pointless, because of some baseless beliefs. May God, if there was one, bless them and give them wisdom. Wisdom to think, that the reality is different. Life is not all about religion and stuff. It's more than that.
All is peaceful until the peacefuls come in to the picture.