Salman Rushdie attacker praises Iran’s Khomeini as a ‘great person’
The 24-year-old man who stabbed Salman Rushdie hailed Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini as a “great person” in an interview published Wednesday.
Newsrael News Desk 18.08.2022
Speaking yesterday to the New York Post in a video interview from jail, Hadi Matar said he did not think Rushdie was “a very good person.”
“He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems,” Matar was quoted as saying.
Matar was referring to Rushdie’s book, “The Satanic Verses,” which Iranian religious leaders and officials have repeatedly said was reason enough to call for his death.
Source: Al Arabiya English
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