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Hello Guardian readers, there’s breaking news regarding the renowned novelist Salman Rushdie and we are going to bring you developments and reaction as it happens, so please join us and we’ll keep you up to date, live.

Rushdie was attacked onstage at an event in upstate New York, according to the Associated Press, who had a reporter at the event.

Onlookers said he was stabbed as he was about to give a speech in Chautaqua, which is about seven-hour drive from New York City, near the southern shore of Lake Erie.

Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked on Friday morning as he was preparing to give a lecture.

An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced.

The author ended up on the floor and could be seen with a first responder crouching over him and organizers rushing to help.

A man was apprehended, according to the news agency.

Boo hoo

tbh I only know that name from seinfeld

Super dope

. Imagine he survives old man get stabbed so many times, looks like their God want him alive afterall. Dumbass religions . Worst is the dumbasses who aren't even religious who'll be defending or downplaying this while outraged at the other crazies who banned abortion

They tried to kill John Bolton too last week.

I just saw a video of Ashura in Iraq a couple of days ago and a guy shot himself 3 times with an AK in the middle of the crowd. He said Imam Hussein promised him no harm!
The stupidity is limitless in its range.

The guy is dead. Saw it on Iraqi news.

You are right the non religious people that defend this s*** are the worst.

WNY going crazy lately

apparently he was on the al qaeda hit list too? damn never heard of dude what did he do?

Wrote a fictional book about Mohammed

He got Fatwa'd by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989

Imagine letting words get under your skin like that

I understand why it provokes anger but come on now.

It is a badly written book.

The non-fictional History of Al-Tabari beginning with the Islamic Creation to the year 915 AD is an eye opening piece.

Reading that I was

Every Muslim should read the Al-Tabari book and the Quran in their native tongue.

Has to miss an eye probably. Extremists the cancer of the world

Extremism is the cancer of society, and the world

Extremism cancer

Cancer extremism

Going back and rereading about the time period right after the fatwa and it really was some crazy s***

Even some bourgeois Muslims in the West straight up fedposting to journalists (although ofc its easy to say “oh yeah I’ll definitely kill salman rushdie if I ever see him. It’s on sight”)

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lmao

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oh lol that makes sense

They killed the Japanese guy who had translated the book back then.