Salman Rushdie attacker was acting on fatwa

Hadi Matar was acting on that fatwa when he plunged a knife into Rushdie in 2022. He wasn't even born when the novel was written or the fatwa issued.

An attack on Salman Rushdie's life in 2022 by a 26-year-old left the author blind in one eye. The attacker, Hadi Matar, from New Jersey has now been charged of committing an act of terrorism in the name of Hizballah (Hezbollah), which has been designated a terrorist group by the US.

A fatwa was issued against Salman Rushdie after the controversy over his 1988 novel 'The Satanic Verses'. The row was over the references to The Quran. In 1989, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie.

Hadi Matar was acting on that fatwa when he plunged a knife into Rushdie in 2022. He wasn't even born when the novel was written or the fatwa issued.