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Rushdie Attacker Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

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naomi24 | 11:58 Sun 18th May 2025 | News
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//Sir Salman was on stage speaking before an audience in August 2022, when he was stabbed multiple times in the face and neck. The attack left him blind in one eye, with damage to his liver and a paralysed hand caused by nerve damage to his arm.

The attack came 35 years after Sir Salman's controversial novel The Satanic Verses, which had long made him the target of death threats for its portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad. 

Sir Salman faced countless death threats and was forced into hiding for nine years after Iran's religious leader issued a fatwa - or decree - calling for the author's death due to the book.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp85kg527p9o

 

Good news.  It was a rotten book anyway.

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I particularly like the way he is marched into court in his striped uniform, his wrists  shackled to his belt.

We could do with some of that here instead of allowing the scum and low-life to relax in the comfort of their cell whilst it is being done.

I doubt whether this pond-life had ever read the book. I have and it's not very good & very obscure.  If it refers to Mohammad the prophet at all, the connection is tenuous.

The person who should have also been punished was the imam who put the fatwa on Rushdie & he had probably not read the book either - because imams don't read books; or just the one. 

In a country where very long prison sentences are routinely handed down, 25 years seems quite light.

It's taken 3 years to get there ?

 

Yes, ridiculously light. 

Yes light, but far longer than he would get here if he even got to Court.

Have that pair you injured a Policewoman been sentenced yet?

their trial is due to start next month

We shall sse.

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