The Fatwa Lives - Rushdie stabbed on stage.
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@George-K said in The Fatwa Lives:
What the hell is wrong with these people's camera work? Are they trying to be edgy auteurs and get invited to Sundance and Cannes?
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Hey, give ‘em a break. Not everyone in the heat of the moment can be as cool and collected as Abraham Zapruder.
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Oh crap, this is awful.
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From the New York Post:
“The news is not good,” the 75-year-old writer’s agent, Andrew Wylie, told The New York Times.
“Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,” said Wylie.
Rushdie, who is still unable to speak, was attacked by a lone man while speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY, about 75 miles south of Buffalo.
He was scheduled to speak about the United States as a place for exiled authors “as a home for freedom of expression,” according to the institute. After the stabbing, he was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania."
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@Catseye3 said in The Fatwa Lives:
@Jolly said in The Fatwa Lives:
Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?
I don't know. Ask a mafioso.
That's a bit different. Those guys tend to kill for business, not for religion.
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I wouldn’t make too much of him being on a ventilator..yet.
Long surgery with trauma to head and neck, perhaps airway injury. This could all be on the side of caution. I’ve put countless patients on a ventilator after a long procedure out of caution. Remember, he is older and we don’t know what comorbidities he might have.