: Attack on Salman Rushdie meant to create regime of fear, says Muslim group #IndiaNEWS The Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy on Sunday said that the recent attack on author Salman Rushdie was aimed

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Attack on Salman Rushdie meant to create regime of fear, says Muslim group #IndiaNEWS
The Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy on Sunday said that the recent attack on author Salman Rushdie was aimed at creating a regime of fear.Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and abdomen at an event in New York’s Chautauqua Institution on August 12. The author has faced several death threats for his book The Satanic Verses published in 1988. In 1989, Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued a religious edict known as a fatwa, asking Muslims to kill Rushdie.According to Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, the author’s liver and nerves in an arm were damaged in the attack. Rushdie was taken off the ventilator on August 13.The man accused of stabbing Rushdie, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, has pleaded not guilty.Also read:The spectre of hurt religious sentiments: On the courage and necessity of Salman Rushdie In a statement issued on Sunday, the forum of Indian Muslims said there cannot be any doubt that the assault on author was a result of the fatwa issued by Khomeini. The group noted that the translators of The Satanic Verses have also been attacked and the book had to be taken off shelves. The book’s Japanese translator was killed in July 1991. A few months later, an Italian translator was also stabbed and the book’s Norwegian publisher was shot.It said that the...Read more

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