“I didn’t know that such a writer even exists. I had no knowledge that my son ever read his book.”
to attack author Salman Rushdie condemned her son on Sunday, saying he was responsible for his own actions and that his family would be moving on “without him.”Daily MailShe’d never heard of Salman Rushdie before getting a frantic phone call from her daughter on Friday, she said.
Immediately after the Friday attack, Rushdie was whisked away to a hospital, where he was placed on a ventilator. Matar was charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree. He has pleaded not guilty. “But instead,” Fardos said, “he locked himself in the basement.” There, she said he lived a nocturnal and isolated existence, cooking his own meals and barely speaking to his mother or his siblings. Although she said she had no idea what her son was doing down there, she sensed that his religious beliefs were becoming more radical.
Then FBI agents materialized at her home in Fairview, New Jersey. Now, she said, she wanted to focus on her two younger children. “They are upset, they’re shocked,” Fardos told theEarlier on Sunday, Rushdie’s son shared a statement on his father’s condition. “Though his life changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty & defiant sense of humour remains intact,” Zafar Rushdie wrote.
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