Hadi Matar describes India-born British-American novelist as ‘someone who attacked Islam’ in interview with New York Post
The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini but would not say if he was inspired by a fatwa issued by the former Iranian leader, according to a New York Post interview published on Wednesday.
Hadi Matar also told the Post he had only “read a couple pages” of Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses and that a tweet in the winter announcing the author’s visit to the Chautauqua Institution gave him the idea of going there.
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