Salman Rushdie was stabbed today in western New York. The motivations of his attacker were not clear, but Rushdie has lived under the threat of violence for decades. In a 2012 essay, he recalled a period of hiding after “The Satanic Verses” was published.
On Friday morning, the author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck as he stood onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, in western New York, where he was scheduled to give a lecture. The motivations of his attacker were not immediately clear, but Rushdie—one of the most celebrated contemporary writers—had lived under the threat of violence for decades.
In 1989, the year after Rushdie published “,” a novel that imagines a fictional version of the Prophet Muhammad, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a decree, or fatwa, calling for Rushdie’s death. An assassination attempt against Rushdie failed later that year, and the writer spent periods in the years that followed in hiding, or under heightened security when he made public appearances.
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