Salman Rushdie: Attacker Was ‘Surprised’ Writer Survived

The young American accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he was “surprised” that the British writer survived the attack. new york post office posted on Wednesday.

“When I heard that he survived, I was shocked,” he said. Hadhi MatarThe 24-year-old tabloid said he had taken a video interview with the jailed suspect.

The alleged shooter, who pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder, did not say if he was inspired by a 1989 religious decree or a fatwa issued by former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that ordered Muslims to kill the writer for what he considered the blasphemous nature of the book. “Satanic Verses”.

“I respect the ayatollah. I think he is a great person. That’s all I can say about it,” said Matar, who, according to new york post officehis lawyer advised him not to talk about it.

Matar told the newspaper that he “read a couple of pages” of the novel Salman Rushdie.

“I don’t like this man. I don’t think he is a very good person,” he said of the author. “I do not like it. I don’t like it very much.”

“He is the one who attacked Islam, attacked their beliefs, belief systems,” he continued.

“Plan” to attack Salman Rushdie

Matar said he had no contact with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s ideological army. Islamic Republic.

He also said that he learned that Salman Rushdie Earlier this year, he was going to give a literature lecture at the Chautauqua Institute via a tweet.

A young New Jersey man told the newspaper that the day before the attack, he took a bus to Buffalo, upstate New York, and then drove to the small town of Chatoqua. , in-app travel service.

“I served time. I didn’t do anything special, I just walked around,” he told the newspaper. “I was outside the whole time.”

Last Friday, before Rushdie was scheduled to give a talk as part of a series of literary lectures, Matar burst onto the stage and stabbed him several times in the neck and stomach.

Rushdie was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery due to life-threatening injuries.

The 75-year-old writer is still in serious condition but has had his ventilator removed and shows signs of improvement.

Trial of Hadi Matar

Matar told new york post office that he saw a YouTube video of Rushdie’s speech and called the writer a “fake”.

On Monday, Matar’s mother, Lebanese Silvana Fardos, a resident of Fairview, New Jersey, described Matar as a “surly introvert” and said he was becoming increasingly obsessed with Islam after visiting Lebanon to see his estranged father, according to British newspaper claims daily mail.

Matar is due to appear in court on Friday.

(According to AFP).

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