US EditionRushdie warns of political violence as he recounts his attack
- Salman Rushdie warned of the danger of political violence while recounting the 2022 attack on him at the premiere of the documentary 'Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie'.
- The documentary also chronicles the backlash and fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini over Rushdie's 1988 novel 'The Satanic Verses', forcing him into hiding for over a decade.
- Rushdie stated that 'violence is unleashed by the unscrupulous using the ignorant to attack culture', referring to authoritarian hostility towards journalism, universities, music and writing.
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According to the writer who was the victim of a knife attack in 2022, "the idea of danger and violence was now close to everyone in this country."
Park City., Writer Salman Rushdie considered that the horrific knife attack that nearly took his life is an example of the violence unleashed by unscrupulous political leaders, and warned that “everyone is now in danger” in an increasingly burning United States.
The writer presented the documentary "Knife" by Alex Gibney at Sundance: the story of the attack he escaped in 2022
"The whole world is in danger" in the United States, warned writer Salman Rushdie, who, in turn, survived a violent attack with the knife three years ago, after two Americans were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, AFP writes.
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in.grThe 78-year-old writer denounces the rampant violence and the attack against him as a symptom of a broader problem in modern society.
After the death of two Americans killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Salman Rushdie is worried about the rise of violence in the United States.
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