Soon after the attack on Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, Writer Taslima Nasreen has said she was worried after hearing about the attack.
Rushdie, had been reportedly stabbed on stage at Chautauqua Institution in western New York, before he was to deliver a lecture on artistic freedom on Friday. The attacker was detained. Authorities have not come out with the motive for the attack yet.
A fatwa had been issued by Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 and Rushdie had been living under police protection.
Bangladeshi writer Nasreen, who had also received threats and suffered assaults from Islamic groups for her novel Lajja, shared her thoughts soon after the news of the attack on Rushdie came out.
I just learned that Salman Rushdie was attacked in New York. I am really shocked. I never thought it would happen. He has been living in the West, and he has been protected since 1989. If he is attacked, anyone who is critical of Islam can be attacked. I am worried.
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) August 12, 2022
“I just learned that Salman Rushdie was attacked in New York. I am really shocked. I never thought it would happen. He has been living in the West, and he has been protected since 1989. If he is attacked, anyone who is critical of Islam can be attacked. I am worried,” Nasreen tweeted.
Ppl r saying let's see what ws the motive bhind the attack on Rushdie b4 making comment. Is it very hard to speculate tht an Islamist tried to kill him as he ws a target of Islamists?What wd they say if it comes out tht the attacker was an Islamist?'Oh no,he's not a true Muslim'?
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) August 12, 2022
“Ppl r saying let’s see what ws the motive bhind the attack on Rushdie b4 making comment. Is it very hard to speculate tht an Islamist tried to kill him as he ws a target of Islamists?What wd they say if it comes out tht the attacker was an Islamist?’ Oh no,he’s not a true Muslim’? (sic)” read her second tweet.
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