Salman Rushdie attacked onstage at New York event

[bena]

While sentiment against Rushdie had probably cooled off in the years since The Satanic Verses, you only have to be caught off-guard once. And after the decades, I'm more surprised Rushdie hasn't been attacked sooner. The combination of caution and just plain luck required to avoid any major incident for 34 years is impressive.

Hope it's not too serious.

Edit: I just saw that he was stabbed in the neck and he was airlifted to a hospital.

Also, I can no longer do date math apparently

[thunderbong]

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32439956

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[Simon_O_Rourke]

It's terrible, but it was one of those things that was going to attract some nut eventually.

If what you write annoys people enough that they want you dead, at least you know there was some fundamental truth in your writing, as and it rubbed some major league a-holes the wrong way.

[exadrid]

That's stupidly wrong. I am not saying that this is the case here, but when Hitler wrote about the Jews, if people were annoyed (to the point of attempted murder) about it, it does not mean he had "some fundamental truth" in it.