Hadi Matar, who stabbed Rushdie, said that he disliked Rushdie because the writer had “attacked Islam.” The ever-ridiculous Daily Mail here proves that some people won’t see what is right in front of their faces even if its comes up and stabs them fifteen times. I am not referring to Rushdie, but to the Daily Mail’s resolute and persistent willful ignorance in the face of what is spectacularly obvious as being a jihad attack.
“Salman Rushdie reveals he has nightmares and PTSD from ‘colossal’ stabbing attack: Author, 75, says he is struggling to write again – and calls New Jersey man who attacked him an ‘idiot,’” by Jen Smith, DailyMail.com, February 6, 2023:
Salman Rushdie has broken his silence six months after being stabbed onstage at a literary event to slam his ‘idiot’ attacker and reveal that he has PTSD and nightmares as a result of the ‘colossal’ assault.
Rusdie was onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York when Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey man, charged at him with a knife, stabbing him 15 times in the torso and neck.
Matar’s motive for the attack remains unclear but in a jailhouse interview last year, he said he disliked author Rushdie for because he had ‘attacked Islam’.
Rushdie spent six weeks in the hospital and has since been recovering at home. He is speaking out now to promote his newest book, Victory City, which he completed before the attack.
In an interview with The New Yorker, he said he’d been ‘better’ but was still suffering and needed constant checkups.
Iran – which has long wanted Rushdie dead – denied having any involvement in the attack. Matar, in an interview with The New York Post last year, said he ‘didn’t like’ the author.
‘I don’t like the person. I don’t think he’s a very good person, I don’t like him. I don’t like him very much.
‘He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems,’ he said. He remains in the Chautauqua County Jail awaiting trial.
Rushdie called the interview ‘idiotic’.
‘I don’t know what I think of him, because I don’t know him. All I’ve seen is his idiotic interview in the New York Post.
‘Which only an idiot would do. I know that the trial is still a long way away. It might not happen until late next year. I guess I’ll find out some more about him then,’ he said….
Rushdie has last more than 40lbs since the attack, has scar tissue on the right side of his face and has a slight droop in his lower lip….
While Matar denied having ties to Iranian extremists, cops at the time of the incident said he had ‘sympathies’ for the regime, and its calls for Rushdie’s head….
After the attack last August, Iran praised Matar’s attack on Rushdie, calling him a ‘depraved heretic writer’ and ‘apostate’….
