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Originally Posted by ianch99
Not sure what you (or anyone) is arguing about, of course it was a radical Islamist psycho. There is no really debate to be had.
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Salman Rushdie: Hadi Matar pleads not guilty to attempted murder of author.
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The man accused of stabbing Sir Salman Rushdie several times has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault.
A lawyer for Hadi Matar, 24, of New Jersey, entered the plea on his behalf during a formal hearing at a court in western New York.
Matar appeared in court wearing a black and white jumpsuit and a white face mask, with his hands cuffed in front of him.
A judge ordered Matar to be held without bail after discovering Matar took steps to purposely put himself in a position to harm Sir Salman.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/new...-b2144735.html
Will be interesting what his defence will be.
For the moval of doubt, yes, I do condemn the attack just as I condemn the death of the Japanese translator under mysterious circumstances in 1991 (still unsolved), the Norwegian publisher William Nygaard shot in the back 3 times in 1993, the Italian translator Ettore Capriolo who was beaten and attacked with a knife and In 1993, the Islamic militants who set fire to a hotel in eastern Turkey in a plot to kill author and tranlator of the book Aziz Nesin.
The fatwah wasn't just issued against Rushdie but anyone else involved with the book.