Attack Suspect Rushdie Says He Admires Iran S Ayatollah Khomeini Salman Rushdie

Hadi Matar also told the Post that he had “only read a few pages” of Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses and that a tweet in the winter announcing the author’s visit to the Chautauqua Foundation gave him the idea to go there. Rushdie, 75, was due to give a lecture on artistic freedom at the western New York venue when police said Mattar, 24, rushed the stage and stabbed the Indian-born author on Friday last week. Rushdie has lived with a bounty on his head since the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988 that prompted Khomeini to issue a fatwa urging Muslims to kill him. “I respect the Ayatollah. I think he is a great person. That’s all I’ll say about it,” the Post quoted Matar as saying in a video interview from the Chautauqua County Jail. “I don’t really like him,” Matar said of Rushdie. “He’s someone who attacked Islam, attacked their beliefs, their belief systems,” he told the Post, adding that he had watched videos of Rushdie on YouTube. Matar denied having contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Post reported. Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault at a court appearance on Saturday, Barone told Reuters. Matar also told the Post that he had taken a bus to Buffalo the day before the attack and then hitched a Lyft ride to Chautauqua. “I was walking around a lot. I’m not doing anything specific, I’m just walking around,” he told the Post, adding that he slept on the grass Thursday night. “I was out all the time,” the paper reported.

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Hadi Matar also told the Post that he had “only read a few pages” of Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses and that a tweet in the winter announcing the author’s visit to the Chautauqua Foundation gave him the idea to go there. Rushdie, 75, was due to give a lecture on artistic freedom at the western New York venue when police said Mattar, 24, rushed the stage and stabbed the Indian-born author on Friday last week. Rushdie has lived with a bounty on his head since the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988 that prompted Khomeini to issue a fatwa urging Muslims to kill him. “I respect the Ayatollah. I think he is a great person. That’s all I’ll say about it,” the Post quoted Matar as saying in a video interview from the Chautauqua County Jail. “I don’t really like him,” Matar said of Rushdie. “He’s someone who attacked Islam, attacked their beliefs, their belief systems,” he told the Post, adding that he had watched videos of Rushdie on YouTube. Matar denied having contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Post reported. Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault at a court appearance on Saturday, Barone told Reuters. Matar also told the Post that he had taken a bus to Buffalo the day before the attack and then hitched a Lyft ride to Chautauqua. “I was walking around a lot. I’m not doing anything specific, I’m just walking around,” he told the Post, adding that he slept on the grass Thursday night. “I was out all the time,” the paper reported.

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Hadi Matar also told the Post that he had “only read a few pages” of Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses and that a tweet in the winter announcing the author’s visit to the Chautauqua Foundation gave him the idea to go there. Rushdie, 75, was due to give a lecture on artistic freedom at the western New York venue when police said Mattar, 24, rushed the stage and stabbed the Indian-born author on Friday last week. Rushdie has lived with a bounty on his head since the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988 that prompted Khomeini to issue a fatwa urging Muslims to kill him. “I respect the Ayatollah. I think he is a great person. That’s all I’ll say about it,” the Post quoted Matar as saying in a video interview from the Chautauqua County Jail. “I don’t really like him,” Matar said of Rushdie. “He’s someone who attacked Islam, attacked their beliefs, their belief systems,” he told the Post, adding that he had watched videos of Rushdie on YouTube. Matar denied having contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Post reported. Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault at a court appearance on Saturday, Barone told Reuters. Matar also told the Post that he had taken a bus to Buffalo the day before the attack and then hitched a Lyft ride to Chautauqua. “I was walking around a lot. I’m not doing anything specific, I’m just walking around,” he told the Post, adding that he slept on the grass Thursday night. “I was out all the time,” the paper reported.

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Hadi Matar also told the Post that he had “only read a few pages” of Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses and that a tweet in the winter announcing the author’s visit to the Chautauqua Foundation gave him the idea to go there. Rushdie, 75, was due to give a lecture on artistic freedom at the western New York venue when police said Mattar, 24, rushed the stage and stabbed the Indian-born author on Friday last week. Rushdie has lived with a bounty on his head since the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988 that prompted Khomeini to issue a fatwa urging Muslims to kill him. “I respect the Ayatollah. I think he is a great person. That’s all I’ll say about it,” the Post quoted Matar as saying in a video interview from the Chautauqua County Jail. “I don’t really like him,” Matar said of Rushdie. “He’s someone who attacked Islam, attacked their beliefs, their belief systems,” he told the Post, adding that he had watched videos of Rushdie on YouTube. Matar denied having contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Post reported. Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault at a court appearance on Saturday, Barone told Reuters. Matar also told the Post that he had taken a bus to Buffalo the day before the attack and then hitched a Lyft ride to Chautauqua. “I was walking around a lot. I’m not doing anything specific, I’m just walking around,” he told the Post, adding that he slept on the grass Thursday night. “I was out all the time,” the paper reported.

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Hadi Matar also told the Post that he had “only read a few pages” of Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses and that a tweet in the winter announcing the author’s visit to the Chautauqua Foundation gave him the idea to go there. Rushdie, 75, was due to give a lecture on artistic freedom at the western New York venue when police said Mattar, 24, rushed the stage and stabbed the Indian-born author on Friday last week. Rushdie has lived with a bounty on his head since the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988 that prompted Khomeini to issue a fatwa urging Muslims to kill him. “I respect the Ayatollah. I think he is a great person. That’s all I’ll say about it,” the Post quoted Matar as saying in a video interview from the Chautauqua County Jail. “I don’t really like him,” Matar said of Rushdie. “He’s someone who attacked Islam, attacked their beliefs, their belief systems,” he told the Post, adding that he had watched videos of Rushdie on YouTube. Matar denied having contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Post reported. Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault at a court appearance on Saturday, Barone told Reuters. Matar also told the Post that he had taken a bus to Buffalo the day before the attack and then hitched a Lyft ride to Chautauqua. “I was walking around a lot. I’m not doing anything specific, I’m just walking around,” he told the Post, adding that he slept on the grass Thursday night. “I was out all the time,” the paper reported.