INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British author of a controversial book titled &The Satanic Verses& was stabbed as he was about to give a
lecture in New York on Friday.Police said Rushdie was stabbed &at least once in the neck, and at least once in the abdomen& after an
assailant rushed to the stage and lunged at the 75-year-old writer just as he was being introduced to the audience.Rushdie was airlifted to
hospital where he spent hours in surgery
On Friday evening, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak.The news is not good,& Andrew Wylie, his book agent, wrote in an email to
&Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.Police identified the suspect as
24-year-old Hadi Matar from New Jersey.Stacey Schlosser, who witnessed the attack, told The Associated Press that Rushdie was stabbed six to
eight times before the attacker was restrained.Nobody knew what to do
I mean, there were tons of people that rushed the stage,& Schlosser said.Rushdie&s book, The Satanic Verses, has been banned in several
countries, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous.The post Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after stabbing in New York first