2025-02-10 12:05:24

‘It shook everyone up’: New York town hosting Salman Rushdie trial recalls knife attack

A liberal arts community finds itself hosting the closely-watched trial of man accused of stabbing novelist in 2022The author Salman Rushdie will this week come face-to-face with the man accused of trying to take his life in a frenzied knife attack during a 2022 literary festival near the snowy, lakeside New York community that finds itself hosting the closely-watched trial.Hadi Matar’s twice-delayed trial kicks off with opening arguments on Monday in what may prove to be a face-off between the religious forces that sought to destroy Rushdie, 77, since a fatwa was issued by Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini following publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988. Continue reading...
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