Today, Saturday, the Associated Press quoted Wiley that Salman Rushdie is on a respirator and unable to speak.
Rushdi’s agent explained that he suffers from liver damage and cut nerves in one of his arms and one of his eyes. Salman Rushdie is likely to lose his injured eye, according to the agency.
And yesterday, Friday, someone attacked the famous writer Salman Rushdie, before giving a speech in New York.
Eyewitnesses reported that an unknown person stormed the platform and started beating Rushdi with his hands and a knife, and the attacker was arrested.
Rushdie has many opponents, and his novel “The Satanic Verses” (1988) sparked a wave of angry protests in the Muslim world.
New York City police said Rushdie was shot in the neck and taken to hospital.
Rushdie faced numerous death threats, including a fatwa by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, calling for his assassination, on February 14, 1989, and the British government placing Rushdie under police protection.
Rushdie was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983, the top literary organization in the whole of the United Kingdom. Rushdie was awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters in January 1999.
Rushdie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in June 2007. The Times ranked him 13th in its list of the 50 best British writers since 1945 through 2008.