Famous writer Salman Rushdie was attacked in New York.
APA reports with reference to CNN that according to the witnesses of the incident, Salman Rushdie was giving a speech at one of the events when a person came onto the stage with a knife in his hand and attacked him.
There is still no information about the health of the world-famous writer.
It should be noted that the reason for the attack on him was his book "Satan's Verses" written in 1989.
That book caused a lot of noise from the day it was released for sale, and even the religious leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa about Rushdi's death.
In the book, there are cases of adapting the fundamental principles of Islam to modern times.
Since such cases are considered as an insult to the Islamic religion, there have been many protests and threats against the book and the author.