Program going by tweet, slept in the field, hearing the news of Rushdie’s life, here was the attacker’s reaction?

Program going by tweet, slept in the field, hearing the news of Rushdie's life, here was the attacker's reaction?

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Salman Rushdie’s program surfaced after seeing the tweet
Hadi Matar decides to attack Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institute
When Matar returned to see his father in Lebanon in 2018, he had changed a lot.

New York. The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie at a lecture stage in western New York said in an interview that he was surprised to learn that the writer survived the attack. Speaking to the New York Post from prison, Hadi Matar said she learned about this suspected attack after seeing a tweet last winter about author Salman Rushdie’s appearance at the Chautauqua Institute. Peas then decides to attack Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institute.

According to a report by news agency AP, Hadi Matar told the newspaper that ‘Mujhe that personality is not Pashtan. I don’t think he is a very good person. He is the person who attacked Islam. He attacked his beliefs, traditions. Matar, 24, said he considered the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini a great man, but would not say that he was following the fatwas issued by Khomeini in Iran in 1989. In which Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses was published and appealed for the death penalty for Rushdie.

However, Iran has denied involvement in the attack on Salman Rushdie. Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, said he had no contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Matar said that he had read only a few pages of The Satanic Verses. Matar said he took a bus to Buffalo the day before the attack and then took a lift to the Chautauqua Institute, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) away. He bought a pass to the Chautauqua Institution ground and then spent the night before Rushdie’s speech soaking in the open field.

The father of those who attacked Salman Rushdie lives in Lebanon.

Matar was born in the US, but holds dual citizenship in Lebanon, where his parents were born. His mother told the media that when Matar returned to see his father in Lebanon in 2018, he had changed a lot. After this he became moody and distanced himself from his family.

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