Salman Rushdie

NEW YORK — The man accused of trying to kill the author Salman Rushdie has been charged with terrorism for allegedly acting on behalf of Hezbollah, according to documents unsealed Wednesday.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, General Hossein Salami, was at the center of a rare criminal complaint filed with Paris prosecutors Thursday.

Salman Rushdie attended a New York gala in his first public appearance since a knife attack that nearly took his life last year.

Novelist Salman Rushdie led condemnations Monday of Roald Dahl’s children’s books being re-edited for a modern audience.

Salman Rushdie on Tuesday publishes his new novel “Victory City”, an “epic tale” of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city.

An Irish MP has said that Salman Rushdie — the author stabbed by a radical Islamist earlier this year — wrote a “threatening” book that “begged a response”.

Author Salman Rushdie has lost the ability to see through one eye as well as the use of one hand after recovering from a stabbing attack.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that “pretty much the entire mainstream media” has been “useless” on the attack on Salman Rushdie and liberals “should be supporting people like Silvana Fardos and the vast majority

T Raja Singh, a state lawmaker from the governing BJP party of India, was detained by police in the city of Hyderabad on Tuesday for “promoting enmity in the name of religion” by posting a video in which he referred to the child bride taken by Islam’s Muhammad.

Reuters on Monday dispatched reporters to the village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, the “ancestral home” of Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old man who rushed onstage and attacked author Salman Rushdie with a knife on Friday.

When Saudi Arabia secretly murdered columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the media and politicians demanded radical changes in U.S. foreign policy; but even after Iran openly supported the attempted murder of author Salman Rushdie, the Biden administration is given a pass as it persists in negotiations with the Iranian regime.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Monday delivered the Iranian regime’s first public comment on the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie. Kanaani denied the Iranian government orchestrated the attack, instead holding Rushdie responsible for his own attempted murder.

The mother of the man who attacked author Salman Rushdie last week has disowned her son, claiming that he underwent a “change” after his trip to Lebanon, according to the Daily Mail.

(AFP) – Scottish police said on Sunday they were investigating an apparent “online threat” made to Harry Potter author JK Rowling in response to her tweet supporting Salman Rushdie following his stabbing.

A newspaper under the control of Iran’s Supreme Leader has said that Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo could soon be “next” for “divine revenge” while celebrating the attack on “apostate” author Salman Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie has reportedly been taken off a ventilator, and is once again able to talk with others after being brutally attacked during an event in New York.

Following the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, J.K. Rowling revealed that she received a death threat warning that she is “next”.

The suspected stabber Salman Rushdie reportedly carried a fake driver’s licence bearing the name of a Hezbollah leader.

Salman Rushdie’s agent has said “the news is not good” in an update on his condition after being stabbed on stage in New York.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher commented on the attack on author Salman Rushdie and said that he doesn’t think the suspected attacker is Amish and “Islam is still a much more fundamentalist religion than any

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) stated that she is extremely concerned about violent political rhetoric and Republicans “continue to talk about a frame that encourages people to go out and get arms. And

Famed author Salman Rushdie, whose writings prompted the Supreme Leader of Iran to put a bounty on his head in 1989, was stabbed ahead of a planned speech in New York.

Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses has said he will publish his next novel in serialized format on Substack, the online subscription newsletter service.

The Saatchi Gallery has covered up two pieces of artwork after complaints from Muslims that they were “blasphemous” because they contained text from the Quran.

On February 14, 1989 Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for British writer Salman Rushdie to be killed for writing “The Satanic Verses”, which the cleric said insulted Islam.

As Democrats across the country readied there 11th-hour midterm election push, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was partying the night away with New York City’s elite.

Patti Smith’s long, slender fingers trembled just thinking about being a writer during the presidency of Donald Trump.

A fatwa on Larry David’s head serves as the theme of this season’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Breitbart London has profiled the quartet of North America-based Islamic preachers who serve on the advisory board of the Muslim Vibe; the online magazine and digital media network calling for Raheem Kassam’s book on No Go Zones to be banned.

When the Islamic Republic of Iran called for his death for insulting Islam, Salman Rushdie became an international hero of free speech. Later defenders of this fundamental freedom, however, have not fared as well, as I show in my new book “The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies).”

A self-identified Birmingham Muslim has told the BBC that those who “insult Islam” should be subject to the death penalty, during a discussion on blasphemy organised by the broadcaster’s Asian Network. On March 17th, the BBC Asian Network broadcast a

How did he get away with it for so long?

This is the question that almost nobody is asking about Keith Vaz, the disgraced MP exposed as having taken part in cocaine- and poppers-enhanced orgies with Romanian rent boys in one of the five houses he has managed mysteriously to accumulate in his parliamentary career.

Iranian state-run media outlets have added $600,000 to a bounty for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie (pictured) imposed in 1989 over the publishing of his book “The Satanic Verses“. The leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, the late

The world’s biggest book fair opens Wednesday under a cloud of controversy with Iran calling on all Muslim nations to boycott the exhibition because author Salman Rushdie has been invited to speak. Organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair defended the

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher and author Salman Rushdie discussed the refugees fleeing the Middle East and Africa, arguing “the answer can’t really be that we empty out the Middle East of all the moderates” and “the solution to

The PEN award to the survivors of the Charlie Hebdo massacre has drawn some very distinguished fire.