The Fatwa Lives - Rushdie stabbed on stage.
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Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man confront Rushdie on stage at the Chautauqua Institution and punch or stab him 10 to 15 times as he was being introduced. The 75-year-old author was pushed or fell to the floor, and the man was arrested.
State police said Rushdie was apparently stabbed in the neck and was flown to a hospital. His condition wasn’t immediately known. The moderator at the event was also attacked and suffered a minor head injury, police said.
Rabbi Charles Savenor was among the roughly 2,500 people in the audience. Amid gasps, spectators were ushered out of the outdoor amphitheater.
@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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@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?
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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As I said earlier, they are effective. The fatwa goes out and they kill you, sooner or later.
Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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As I said earlier, they are effective. The fatwa goes out and they kill you, sooner or later.
Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?
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@Jolly said in The Fatwa Lives:
Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?
I don't know. Ask a mafioso.
@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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@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.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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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.
@George-K said in The Fatwa Lives:
Remember, he is older and we don’t know what comorbidities he might have.
I hope the Jihadi doves don’t start making ‘die-of-the-fatwa’ vs ‘die-with-the-fatwa’ distinctions now.
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@George-K said in The Fatwa Lives:
Remember, he is older and we don’t know what comorbidities he might have.
I hope the Jihadi doves don’t start making ‘die-of-the-fatwa’ vs ‘die-with-the-fatwa’ distinctions now.
@jon-nyc said in The Fatwa Lives:
@George-K said in The Fatwa Lives:
Remember, he is older and we don’t know what comorbidities he might have.
I hope the Jihadi doves don’t start making ‘die-of-the-fatwa’ vs ‘die-with-the-fatwa’ distinctions now.
LOL
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As I said earlier, they are effective. The fatwa goes out and they kill you, sooner or later.
Just as a thought exercise, what if Christians acted this way?
I was only joking
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"Ayatollah Khomeini's offer of paradise to Rushdie's assassin has caused writers and public officials in Western nations to become almost exclusively preoccupied with the author's rights.
While Rushdie's First Amendment freedoms are important, we have tended to promote him and his book with little acknowledgment that it is a direct insult to those millions of Moslems whose sacred beliefs have been violated and are suffering in restrained silence the added embarrassment of the Ayatollah's irresponsibility.
This is the kind of intercultural wound that is difficult to heal. Western leaders should make it clear that in protecting Rushdie's life and civil rights, there is no endorsement of an insult to the sacred beliefs of our Moslem friends."
I guess that "restrained silence" got loud yesterday.
