Salman Rushdie 'on the road to recovery,' agent says

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By HILLEL ITALIE and CAROLYN THOMPSON

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie is “on the road to recovery,” his agent confirmed Sunday, two days after the author of “The Satanic Verses” suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in New York.

The announcement followed news that the lauded writer was removed from a ventilator Saturday and able to talk. Literary agent Andrew Wylie cautioned that although Rushdie’s “condition is headed in the right direction,” his recovery would be long. Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and in an eye that he was likely to lose, Wylie had previously said.

“Though his life changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty & defiant sense of humour remains intact,” Rushdie’s son Zafar Rushdie said in a Sunday statement that stressed the author remained in critical condition. The family statement also expressed gratitude for the “audience members who bravely leapt to his defence,” as well as police, doctors and “the outpouring of love and support.”

Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called “a targeted, unprovoked, preplanned attack” at western New York’s Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center.



FILE - Salman Rushdie attends the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on Nov. 15, 2017, in New York. Rushdie is “on the road to recovery,” his agent confirmed Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, two days after the author of “The Satanic Verses” suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in upstate New York. The announcement followed news that the lauded writer was removed from a ventilator Saturday and able to talk and joke. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)


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[catbyte]

1. Maybe the law in New York is different than my state, but why was he charged

with 2nd-degree attempted murder if it was preplanned?

So relieved he's doing better but it sounds like he has a long hard road ahead of him. I've been worried about this since Khomeini issued that fatwa in 1989.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. I believe initial charges are usually determined from the info in the police report.

As the investigation proceeds, and more evidence is gathered, charges can be added and dropped.

[Carlitos Brigante]

2. K&R! What a stupid and contradictory mentality this is. "My sky daddy is all

powerful!...... except for all these things he somehow needs 'a bug' like me to take care of for him. If you're that secure in your being's power. Wouldn't these acts be an insult to said entity? Like they're impotent or something?

[Warpy]

3. All these zealots worship the god of assisted living

who sits up on some cloud and can't do anything for himself.

I've just never understood it. I guess taking over god's job makes these bozos feel somehow godlike, themselves. Or something.

Or maybe they're just murderous sociopaths who think a pious excuse will get them off the legal hook.

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. "god of assisted living". That's just damn brilliant. Hopefully "your

god" won't smite me if I "steal that" from now on....... Oh wait. He can't.

[SouthernDem4ever]

6. if you ever get smited you may join us at the

church of the flying spaghetti monster. All are welcome.

[Warpy]

9. Ramen!

I think it's "get smitten," although since I dislike the verb, I usually say "get smote" or even "done got smote," going back to roots I'd really rather forget.

[Warpy]

8. AFAIK, it's a Warpy original

and I'm nobody's god(dess) so use it without fear of lightning bolts or copyright violation suits.

[JI7]

10. Also an abusive type of God that needs and demands

those it created to worship them or else they will suffer forever.

"you made me do it" .

[Farmer-Rick]

18. Yeah, why does this all powerful being need worship?

I don't need my kids to bow down and pray to me. I love them and care for them. And any respect I get is earned. I don't need my employees to praise my name, and I pay them more than god does. I just need them to do their job. Keep your worship.

This all powerful being hasn't earned my respect. Most everything I got, I worked hard and long for. And my parents gave me life....so how come a super powerful being needs my worship?

It's such a bizarre concept. Do we worship anything else in our lives? Money? Where did this mandatory worship originate from? Feudalism?

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Good news! Thanks OS! ❤️

[Paladin]

7. So good to hear something positive!

Positive has been in short supply lately, in so many ways.

Continued good luck to the brilliant Mr. Rushdie.

[nycbos]

11. Excellent

[LenaBaby61]

12. "They're" still after that poor man ....

They almost got him this time, but the universe said "NOPE."


If he doesn't already have one, I do hope that when speaks in public, he uses a security detail from now on.

Keep on trucking Mr. Rushdie

[bronxiteforever]

13. What a brave man.

[nycbos]

14. I hope every book he has written gets on the best seller list.

I can't think of a better way on how to give the middle finger to the extremis. It will also send a message to the Ayatollah down in hell, if you believe in that kind of thing. I don't, but on days where a writer is attacked at an event celebrating free expression I wish I did.

[JI7]

17. Satanic Verses is in the top 10 now

I do like it that he will at least get to enjoy that money. Usually the writer/artists are dead when this happens.

[forgotmylogin]

15. Pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault?

A little bit ridiculous when this occurred at a public event with what looked to be around 100 witnesses? I guess so the perp can have their story heard...

I would suppose it's 2nd degree because 1st degree would require full premeditation and I think 2nd degree can be an unpremeditated "act of passion"?