Salman Rushdie on Being Violently Attacked and the Love That Healed Him | Amanpour and Company

Freedom of expression lies at the heart of democratic values. One might see the author Salman Rushdie as a wounded veteran of the fight for free speech. Over 30 years ago, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini imposed a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s assassination over a book he had never read, yet labeled blasphemous: "The Satanic Verses." In recent years, the threat seemed to have receded - until August 2022, when a young American man with a knife viciously attacked Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York, as he was about to speak about the issue of safety for writers. Rushdie nearly died. He has written about the attack and the love that helped him triumph over death in a new memoir, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”
Originally aired on April 24, 2024
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[@ramdularsingh1435]

We want ' the Nobel Prize in Literature ' for Salman Rushdie ! No more ignorance to the brilliant author so that the prestige of the Prize is left a bit intact ! .....

[@selvamthiagarajan8152]

only if he can take a decisive stand on Gaza issue

[@HerAeolianHarp]

So glad he has come through it all. He is a strong man and an enormous talent.

[@karmasutra4774]

I have a copy of the book sitting on my bookshelf and hate that all that happened to him

[@diamondseeds2107]

I love the concept of a wounded happiness, it applies in the best of relationships. The wound appears and comes as a shock. It's a relief to discover the wound is healing, then seek happiness once more. It's a human right.

[@Awibrahor]

All this man ever did was write a novel. Someone of his integrity, talent and wisdom shouldn’t have suffered all this.

[@carolinebjerkelund767]

Religion poisons everything - Christopher Hitchens

[@raristy1]

With all due respect to Mr. Hitchen, it’s not Religion that poisons everything, it is humankind’s ego that perverts and poisons Religion and art and politics and, well everything else that humankind’s ego is allowed to infect

[@selvamthiagarajan8152]

Lets work for peace among us brothers and sisters

[@joesummer]

We all know who’s really responsible for,who issued the threat to this innocent man’s life for writing something about someone in history

[@splashesin8]

Good to hear you talking. 😊 The first book I got to read of Salmon's was Shame, and was delightedly surprised. It took me awhile to get the feel of the voice of, but I very soon, related to The Virgin Iron Pants, at that time of my life. 😂❤ ...and all the scenery, and family stuff. A very entertaining long read, and worth it.

[@selvamthiagarajan8152]

Salman Rushdie is awfully quiet about the Gaza crisis.

[@Scapegrace74]

Life isn't fair or reasonable.

[@nycarrhythmiacarepllc7894]

What is the point of posting Christiana's interviews if we only get a part of them.

[@user-gd4wt6oi7y]

I never want to be in psychos like mind, its vicious violent deranged cold without any emotion in it, we all know how it works though

[@carlgranados7106]

People like Salman are the true heroes of this world.

[@thinkabout602]

💔 to 💚 takes a great person 💯+