Author Salman Rushdie revealed that doctors told him that he was “lucky” to survive the heinous 2022 knife attack on him at the hands of an Islamic man at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York.
Rushdie was stabbed more than a dozen times, including in the neck, eye, and chest but by a miracle none of those stabs were fatal.
Rushdie, who is 76 years old, spent six weeks in a hospital and lost sight in his right eye and the use of his left hand but that outcome was still a miraculous one considering the violence of the attack.
Islamic radicals have been trying to kill Rushdie for years because of his controversial novel “The Satanic Verses” which contains passages that Muslims consider blasphemous.
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa putting a bounty on Rushdie’s head in 1989 and he has lived in danger ever since.
The man who attacked Rushdie, Hadi Matar, expressed shock that Rushdie lived. He now faces 30 years in prison and pled not guilty but there is little chance that he will have any success.
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