Salman Rushdie: 'Watching the pool of my blood spreading, I thought: I'm dying' | Exclusive

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  • Опубліковано 13 кві 2024
  • Sir Salman Rushdie has described the “matter of fact” realisation that he was dying after being stabbed in 2022, in a reading from his memoir recorded exclusively for The Telegraph.
    The Booker Prize winner recounts how he willed himself to carry on living as he watched a pool of blood “spreading out from my body” after the on-stage attack as he prepared to deliver a lecture in New York state.
    Sir Salman’s account of the stabbing and his recovery from it, called Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder, is published today.
    Sitting in the book-lined office of his agent in New York, Sir Salman is able to hold the book with his injured left hand, which was badly damaged when he was stabbed more than a dozen times by a suspected Islamist fanatic.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 94

  • @bearowen5480
    @bearowen5480 Місяць тому +33

    Powerful, very powerful. I'm so grateful that this literary giant of a man was spared for us! Long live Salman Rushdie, he has more to tell us about life.

  • @civilengineer3349
    @civilengineer3349 Місяць тому +68

    What an extraordinary man

    • @mus3504
      @mus3504 Місяць тому +2

      How do u know ? where u married to him?

  • @arleneirvine1526
    @arleneirvine1526 Місяць тому +18

    i crashed in a float plane many years ago, ended upside down at the bottom of a lake, my first thought was oh, i never thought i'd die this way, no fear, no panic, just genuine surprise, i lived , obviously.

  • @theworldaccordingto4555
    @theworldaccordingto4555 Місяць тому +13

    A fantastic writer & author (and a hardline atheist)... A great man. May he live long and treat us all to more of his thoughts and literature.

  • @julianavellaromero3378
    @julianavellaromero3378 Місяць тому +3

    Salman is good for mankind. What a set of balls he has!

  • @TGHO45789
    @TGHO45789 Місяць тому +20

    Amazing video and remember everyone to keep going

  • @cgstudiosthebaconbro
    @cgstudiosthebaconbro Місяць тому +13

    My dad was in the military, his friend died in his arms and he was athiest, I wonder if his friend was thinking a similar thing about dying alone from the family while somebody is nearby while dying

    • @johnshepard8556
      @johnshepard8556 Місяць тому +2

      Sorrh to hear that but people should not treat there lives like a lottery like they do in the military with young men needlessly sacrificing there lives for greedy old men as life is sacred especially young life

    • @ayoolukoga9829
      @ayoolukoga9829 Місяць тому +2

      It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Hebrews 9:27

    • @EllaBella-76
      @EllaBella-76 Місяць тому +1

      @cgstudiostebaconbro •I imagine your Dad’s best friend only cared that someone was there trust me I have come very close I had a major accident what was bazaar was I argued with the Air Ambulance medic about the need to cut off my clothes how bazaar that I should not even realise it took me ages to actually understand when I saw my brother crying I could not even figure that out ?But a friend died in that same accident I think that was worse it gave me horrendous PTSD -I can’t actually remember much -Here he is talking about his clothes my Silk blouse ?

  • @lesleywild8706
    @lesleywild8706 Місяць тому +12

    If only every Imam could go through the same experience - the rubbish that they believe in might shrink to insignificance.

  • @bumblebee8653
    @bumblebee8653 Місяць тому +18

    Love and well wishes from Australia. ❤️

  • @nurseSean
    @nurseSean Місяць тому +4

    That was a powerful passage.
    That message on this channel makes it geometrically more moving: not times two but squared.
    Разом ми переможемо

    • @nurseSean
      @nurseSean Місяць тому

      OH wait, I thought this was, a particular Ukrainian media source. still a perfect platform for the message 😀

  • @keith8609
    @keith8609 Місяць тому +2

    A very brave man may he have a long life

  • @PPitambarP
    @PPitambarP Місяць тому +1

    Dear Sir, dying body hits the soul very very hard (harder than sickness).

  • @AlchemistOfNirnroot
    @AlchemistOfNirnroot Місяць тому +3

    Powerful.

  • @ELPRES1DENTE45
    @ELPRES1DENTE45 Місяць тому +17

    Those Bond villain glasses are sick.

    • @painterly_porcine262
      @painterly_porcine262 Місяць тому +3

      hehehehe .... well that's at least one "Take-away".

    • @flossypark3169
      @flossypark3169 Місяць тому +1

      He was attacked viciously with the intent of ending his life, by a member of that ‘peaceful religion’ because he dared to criticise the Quran!
      Salman is a legend!

  • @zamiadams4343
    @zamiadams4343 Місяць тому +4

    Such a great man, freedom of speech is EVERYTHING.

  • @patriciastaton6182
    @patriciastaton6182 Місяць тому +4

    🎉🙏🏾🎉

  • @suchitranag5198
    @suchitranag5198 Місяць тому

    Eager to read 💐 and to know what are the other books into your bookshelf 🙏

  • @tenkun2439
    @tenkun2439 Місяць тому

    As he narrates the story, it becomes like a knife cutting the knife.

  • @Eurydice870
    @Eurydice870 Місяць тому +2

  • @CIS101
    @CIS101 Місяць тому +4

    I heard of him long ago, and his book The Satanic Versus, but I know little of him. As of 1:29 that seems sincere, sad, and real.

  • @nigelscott1922
    @nigelscott1922 Місяць тому

    Such a senseless attack on an amazing human being makes me very sad for humanity.

  • @thecomprador
    @thecomprador Місяць тому +13

    Islam is a peaceful religion, they say...

    • @FM-xx8ws
      @FM-xx8ws Місяць тому +2

      Who killed all those innocent people and stabbed a baby in Bondi junction explain that

    • @arafjan7488
      @arafjan7488 Місяць тому

      Radical Judaism and Zionazism is the real threat

    • @arafjan7488
      @arafjan7488 Місяць тому

      Radical Judaism/Zionazism is the real threat now and Apartheid IsraHell

    • @robstewart1703
      @robstewart1703 Місяць тому

      @@FM-xx8ws who invaded and bombed the middle east in illegal wars killing and maiming hundreds of thousands?

  • @PapakShirazi
    @PapakShirazi Місяць тому +1

    Iran is now an ex-Muslim-majority country; Islam has Khomeini to thank for that!🥂

  • @tubalcain1039
    @tubalcain1039 Місяць тому +4

    Against all violence.

  • @AadamSaleem390
    @AadamSaleem390 Місяць тому +6

    This video came out of nowhere

  • @Humanity952
    @Humanity952 Місяць тому +1

    ExMuslim ❤

  • @Humanity952
    @Humanity952 Місяць тому

    ❤ Without lust Islam is Dust 🎉

  • @pedrolplgm
    @pedrolplgm Місяць тому +1

    Sos.

  • @SpaceGringos3D
    @SpaceGringos3D Місяць тому

    The fact some videos have comments turned off shows your extreme biased 👍🏻

  • @janklaas6885
    @janklaas6885 Місяць тому

    📍3:53 🫶

  • @kiandrah8517
    @kiandrah8517 Місяць тому +1

    I'm surprised he is still here then and now.

  • @alexandrelougansk2412
    @alexandrelougansk2412 Місяць тому +3

    Religion d'amour, de tolérance et de paix !

  • @samfawlia
    @samfawlia Місяць тому

    🥱

  • @abbasnaeemofficial9895
    @abbasnaeemofficial9895 Місяць тому +3

    The West has always supported those who are against or write against Islam. Rushdie is more successful now. There are many a great English writers in India who are living in obscurity.

    • @stephenkane1074
      @stephenkane1074 Місяць тому

      Islamism is well represented in the comment section. Ugly, petty, base and violent.

  • @sunrisesunset6004
    @sunrisesunset6004 Місяць тому

    Interesting how he quotes St Paul despite denying Jesus and an imortal accountable soul.

    • @mariannehavisham8323
      @mariannehavisham8323 Місяць тому +1

      Peter Tatchel an atheist and Gandhi a Hindu have both also cited Jesus as a source of inspiration to them

  • @AbdulHalim-vu7fv
    @AbdulHalim-vu7fv Місяць тому +1

    Sorry to hear of your. Pain..blood and CREDIT CARDS.

  • @Faith-May2005
    @Faith-May2005 Місяць тому

    I thought this guy already died

  • @itsali78692
    @itsali78692 Місяць тому

    Mf is still alive

  • @m1lfslayer225
    @m1lfslayer225 Місяць тому

    I thought he was vegetable

  • @Faith-May2005
    @Faith-May2005 Місяць тому +2

    I don't understand why they give so much value to these kinds of individuals (Ie : writers of non sense novels , autobiography , bla bla bla ...

    • @josephlarrybradley508
      @josephlarrybradley508 Місяць тому +7

      Because they fear him. Islam can't stand critical thinking or criticism of any sort.

  • @seanmoran2743
    @seanmoran2743 Місяць тому +1

    Hypocrisy from this rag yet again

  • @miqbalhundekari4802
    @miqbalhundekari4802 Місяць тому +8

    Dog is barking

    • @BeastHive
      @BeastHive Місяць тому +12

      I didn't know dogs could type.

    • @WinstonMaraj-gx8sm
      @WinstonMaraj-gx8sm Місяць тому

      I am pumping for Salman to win the Nobel Prize before 2030. Keep writing, Salman .
      Do a book about someone from Afghanistan escaping from Momo Land ,coming to the West, and having a breakdown of his family and girlfriend unable to escape and have a life in the West.

    • @rajsouth101
      @rajsouth101 Місяць тому

      Mohomo pedophet 72ed 1400 years ago..

  • @SajidKhan-jg8bk
    @SajidKhan-jg8bk Місяць тому +3

    Rushdie trying to project himself how "big" he is!
    If he would have been in a pool of blood, he wouldn't be alive to do all this jabbing!😡😡😡

    • @tyronp8487
      @tyronp8487 Місяць тому +9

      Roses are red
      violets are blue
      aisha was 9
      and muhammed 52
      🤮🤢

    • @robstewart1703
      @robstewart1703 Місяць тому

      🔔 🔚

    • @karl4683
      @karl4683 Місяць тому +5

      Spot the muslim

  • @jemalabdunasir1660
    @jemalabdunasir1660 Місяць тому +2

    We need a second fatwa on this traitor

    • @samdavepollard
      @samdavepollard Місяць тому +4

      Why? The original has never been withdrawn. Have a nice day.

    • @lesleywild8706
      @lesleywild8706 Місяць тому

      @jemalabdunasir1660 The fatwa obviously wasn't meant to be so let it fall on your fat head?

    • @oneshothunter9877
      @oneshothunter9877 Місяць тому +2

      I can do a drawing of Muhammad.
      No problem.

    • @S.D.323
      @S.D.323 Місяць тому

      cope harder

  • @shahzadahmed6638
    @shahzadahmed6638 Місяць тому

    Hahahahahahah

  • @arafjan7488
    @arafjan7488 Місяць тому +4

    Looks like a Bond villain now! Poor writing I reckon would've been better to have gone gently into the long night dude. He should watch Yasir Qadhi's Seerah of the Prophet PBUH- its only the mercy of the Creator which guides someone to Islam.

    • @josephlarrybradley508
      @josephlarrybradley508 Місяць тому +6

      It.s only the devil that guides anyone to Islam.

    • @contact594
      @contact594 Місяць тому

      This is why the west doesn't need your 'values'