Salman Rushdie's agent says the author has lost the use of an eye and hand as a result of a knife attack in New York earlier this year.
It's the latest update on Rushdie's condition since the attack, during which Wylie said the author suffered three serious wounds in his neck and 15 more in his chest and torso.at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York on Aug. 12 when a man, later identified as 24-year-old Hadi Matar from Fairview, New Jersey, jumped on stage and stabbed the author and another man.
Rushdie spent nine years in hiding under a British government protection program after he faced death threats and a bounty for his murder from the Iranian government in the late 1980s over his book, "The Satanic Verses," which was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran called for Rushdie's death and put a bounty of more than $3 million on his head over the book.What they're saying:"I think the attack was probably something that Salman and I have discussed in the past, which was that the principal danger that he faced so many years after the fatwa was imposed is from a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking [him].
"So, you can’t protect against that because it’s totally unexpected and illogical. It was like John Lennon’s murder."to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges in August and was being held without bail.in September for more time to process more than 30,000 files and pieces of evidence involved in the case while attempting to establish the suspect's motive.
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