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Aug 12 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
Salman Rushdie has been stabbed in New York as he was beginning a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. Rushdie's condition is unclear. Suspicion will naturally fall on #Iran, whose government called for his murder in 1989 and never repudiated the fatwa. apnews.com/article/salman…
Pictures circulating show the Salman Rushdie being wheeled away on a stretcher after he was stabbed in New York, contrary to some reports he walked off stage, and the perpetrator being arrested. ImageImage
#pt
The idea that #Iran's regime has "distanced" itself from far Rushdie fatwa is as mythical as the fatwa against nuclear weapons.
New York police say Salman Rushdie "suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, and was transported by helicopter to an area hospital. His condition is not yet known." Rushdie's would-be interviewer also "suffered a minor head injury". Image
The man who stabbed Salman Rushdie earlier today has been identified as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, who has an online record of support for #Iran's regime, its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and its version of Shi'ism. nypost.com/2022/08/12/nj-…
Horrible news
It seems the Al Snow reference is unintentional ImageImage
Naturally, #Iran's state media welcomed attempted murder of Salman Rushdie
Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed Salman Rushdie earlier today, had a fake driving license in the name of "Hassan Mughniyah". Imad Mughniyah was the officer of #Iran's IRGC who ran the Lebanese branch, Hizballah, until Israel struck him down in 2008.
Jimmy Carter has managed to make it a live question whether his post-Presidency has been worse than his Presidency, which is impressive in its way since his time in office was so devastatingly catastrophic
One must, however grudgingly, give the French their due
#Iran officials clarifying that they still support the murder of Salman Rushdie
#Iran is not at all being subtle about what happened to Salman Rushdie: the clerical regime clearly wants "credit" for the attempted assassination, and it should receive the treatment that is the due of terrorist states that murder authors around the world
Supporting Islamist terrorists to own the libs is ... an interesting new venture for MAGAworld
#IRGC's Lebanese branch
The "blasphemy" issue is one where far too many moderate/liberal Muslims, specifically in Pakistan, descent into ambiguity [at best] about the legitimacy of murder as a response.

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