Reuters
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News from the NOS•these days, 07:56
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The guy who stabbed Salman Rushdie did not expect the Anglo-American writer to survive the attack. “When I listened to him, I feel he surprised me,” Hadi Matar told the New York Article. The newspaper spoke to him for 15 minutes via online video link to the jail the place he is being held.
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On the guidance of his attorney, the 24-calendar year-previous American declined to respond to the question of regardless of whether he was impressed by the fatwa that previous Iranian chief Ayatollah Khomeini (1902-1989) issued on Rushdie. “I respect Ayatollah. I imagine he is a excellent gentleman. That’s all I want to say about it.”
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Matar noticed an announcement on Twitter that Rushdie would be providing a convention final Friday in the city of Chautauqua, New York. He then made the decision to go there. “I really don’t like him. I will not think he is a very good person,” he instructed the New York Write-up. “He is a person who attacked Islam, he attacked the faith”.
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Unread Satanic Verses
Ayatollah Khomenei issued a fatwa from Rushdie in 1989 a authorized ruling within Islamic law calling for the killing of Rushdie due to the fact of his book The Verze del Diavolon would have insulted the Prophet Mohammed. Whoever killed Rushdie would acquire a $ 3 million reward.
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Matar explained to the New York Write-up that he had browse a several webpages of The verses of the devil has read through. “I have not examine it from protect to include all the way as a result of.”
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Matar was charged with tried murder and assault. The General public Prosecutor’s Office refuses to launch him on bail. Rushdie was stabbed 3 occasions in the appropriate facet, 4 situations in the tummy, two occasions in the chest and at the time in the right thigh and ideal eye. He could possibly eliminate that eye.
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