The attack was at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, in southwestern New York.
Author Salman Rushdie appears at a signing for his book"Home" in London on June 6, 2017.Author Salman Rushdie was hospitalized Friday after being attacked at a speaking event in New York state.
The alleged attacker is Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, a law enforcement official told ABC News. He was arrested at the scene and is currently in New York State Police custody. It wasn't immediately clear if he had a lawyer. "We'll continue to look at providing the maximum security that we can," Hill said. "This has never happened in our entire history. Chautauqua has always been an extremely safe place. We will continue to be working to keep that tradition going.""He rushed the stage, it looked like he was punching him," Patrick Fogarty told Erie, Pennsylvania, ABC affiliateJohn Stein told WJET he was worried about security given Rushdie's notoriety.
"People in the audience had gone up on the stage when they saw this and then grabbed the attacker, who still had a knife, I think," he told the station. "A lot of bravery."New York Gov. Kathy Hochul"horrific," saying she has directed state police to "further assist however needed in the investigation."
The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini accused the author of blasphemy over the book and in 1989 issued a fatwa against Rushdie, calling for his death.
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