NEW YORK: British author Salman Rushdie who wrote blasphemous content against Prophet of Islam (PBUH) was attacked on stage in western New York State. Video footage posted on social media showed people rushing to his aid after he was attacked at event in Chautauqua County, with police confirming a stabbing while declining to immediately identify victim.

Chautauqua County Sheriff’s office said, “We can confirm there was a stabbing,” without giving further details. Author now 75, was propelled into spotlight with his second novel “Midnight’s Children” in 1981, which won international praise and Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for its portrayal of post-independence India. But his blasphemous book “The Satanic Verses” written in 1988, hurt sentiments of Muslims across globe, which lead Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to call for his death.

Rushdie, who was born in India to non-practising Muslims and himself is an atheist was forced to go underground as a bounty was put on his head.  He was granted police protection by government in Britain, where he was at school and where he made his home.

 He spent nearly a decade in hiding, moving houses repeatedly and being unable to tell his children where he lived. People like Salman Rushdie are the ones who creates religious inharmony and divides communities through their disgusting mindset and profane perceptions, they become curse for all and sundry.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 13 2022

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