{"id":1603550,"date":"2022-08-12T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603550"},"modified":"2022-08-12T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:35:03","slug":"why-the-iranians-want-salman-rushdie-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-iranians-want-salman-rushdie-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Iranians Want Salman Rushdie Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-the-iranians-want-salman-rushdie-dead%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Award-winning author stabbed on stage in New York<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSalman Rushdie with then-wife Padma Lakshmi in 2005 (Photo by Katy Winn\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/tim-rice\/\" title=\"Posts by Tim Rice\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Tim Rice<\/a> \u2022 August 12, 2022 2:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Salman Rushdie, the award-winning author whose 1988 novel <em>The Satanic Verses <\/em>earned him a fatwa from Iran, was attacked on stage Friday just before beginning a lecture in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Rushdie was apparently stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage as the author took the podium at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/salman-rushdie-attacked-9eae99aea82cb0d39628851ecd42227a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>. The man stabbed Rushdie 10 to 15 times before he was detained. Rushdie fell to the ground and was airlifted to a hospital, where his condition is uknown.<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes more than 30 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/irandataportal.syr.edu\/fatwa-against-salman-rushdie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatwa<\/a> calling on &#8220;all brave Muslims of the world&#8221; to kill Rushdie, as well as his authors and publishers, &#8220;without delay.&#8221; Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, slammed <em>The Satanic Verses <\/em>as &#8220;against Islam, the Prophet of Islam, and the Qu\u2019ran,&#8221; and noted that Rushdie\u2019s assassination was necessary to ensure &#8220;no one will dare insult the sacred beliefs of Muslims henceforth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khomeini\u2019s fatwa claims &#8220;whoever is killed in this cause will be a martyr.&#8221; Rushdie\u2019s head also carries a $3 million bounty in Iran.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Satanic Verses <\/em>is a sprawling work that consists in part of a fictionalized narrative of the founding of Islam by the Prophet Mohammad. In the book, Rushdie refers to Mohammad as &#8220;Mahound,&#8221; reportedly a derogatory term for the prophet used by Medieval Christians. The book\u2019s title comes from a scene in which Mahound rejects his earlier revelation permitting polytheistic worship as the work of the Devil.<\/p>\n<p>Some Muslims objected to <em>The Satanic Verses <\/em>before Khomeini\u2019s fatwa. Several countries <a href=\"https:\/\/bannedbooks.library.cmu.edu\/salman-rushdie-the-satanic-verses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned<\/a> the book, and critics held book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/1989\/03\/02\/the-book-burning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burnings<\/a> around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Rushdie was defiant when asked about the backlash to <em>The Satanic Verses <\/em>in a 1989 television interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frankly I wish I had written a more critical book,&#8221; the author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/1989\/feb\/15\/salmanrushdie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, adding that &#8220;religious leaders who are able to behave like this, and then say this is a religion which must be above any kind of whisper of criticism, that doesn&#8217;t add up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khomeini\u2019s February 1989 fatwa led to a barrage of death threats and drove Rushdie into hiding under British government protection. The author reentered public life nine years later, and went on to marry model and <em>Top Chef <\/em>host Padma Lakshmi.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Award-winning author stabbed on stage in New York  Salman Rushdie with then-wife Padma Lakshmi in 2005 (Photo by Katy Winn\/Getty Images)  Tim Rice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}