Iranian press hails attack on Salman Rushdie
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Iranian ultra-conservative newspaper Kayhan named courageous and conscientious man who attacked writer Salman Rushdie with a knife. After the attack, he was hospitalized, and is now connected to a ventilator. In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death.
Other Iranian media adhere to approximately the same point of view, calling for “kissing the hands” of the person who attacked the writer. The country’s authorities have not yet made any official comments.
Mohammad Morandi, adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team in Vienna, wrote on social media that he would not cry for a man who spews endless hatred and contempt for Muslims and Islam. He also noted in a strange coincidence that Rushdie was attacked at a time when Iran and the United States were close to concluding a nuclear deal, 30 years after the fatwa was issued.
The 75-year-old Rushdie was thrust into the global spotlight with his second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981). He received the prestigious British Booker Prize for his portrayal of post-independence India, where he was born. But the 1988 book The Satanic Verses changed his whole life.
In 1998, the government of reformist Iranian President Mohammad Khatami assured Britain that Iran would not comply with the fatwa. However, in 2005, Khomeini stated that he still considered Rushdie a criminal whose murder Islam approved.
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