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FL: Books and Books hosted Booker Prize-winning International bestselling Author Salman Rushdie as he launches his new novel QUICHOTTE presented in colloboration with Miami Book Fair at Miami Dade College.
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage Friday at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
Iran has also offered over $3 million in reward for anyone who kills Rushdie.
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