Salman Rushdie uploads selfie, months after shedding a watch to Islamist Jihadi assault

On Monday (February 7), novelist Salman Rushdie uploaded a selfie on Twitter, months after being stabbed by means of a 24-year-old Islamist named Hadi Matar.

The improvement got here hours after the American weekly mag, New Yorker, revealed a piece of writing at the novelist titled ‘The Defiance of Salman Rushdie.’

“The photograph in New Yorker is dramatic and robust however this, extra prosaically, is what I if truth be told appear to be,” he had tweeted whilst attaching of an image of him dressed in a tinted glass over his non-functional proper eye.

The photograph in @NewYorker is dramatic and robust however this, extra prosaically, is what I if truth be told appear to be. ? %.twitter.com/ydrV7WvWgE

— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) February 6, 2023

On February 6, New Yorker revealed a piece of writing on Rushdie’s new ebook ‘Victory Town’ and added a black-and-white symbol of the novelist.

“A Profile of the creator Salman Rushdie, whose new ebook, “Victory Town”—his sixteenth since a fatwa used to be issued towards him—is an confirmation of the ability of storytelling,” it had tweeted an afternoon later.

The novelist sought after to chop the drama and indicate to his world readers that the truth isn’t as scintillating because the featured symbol of the American mag.

A Profile of the creator Salman Rushdie, whose new ebook, “Victory Town”—his sixteenth since a fatwa used to be issued towards him—is an confirmation of the ability of storytelling. https://t.co/I7wcVqGImF

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) February 6, 2023

It’s noteworthy that 34 years in the past, then Iran’s preferrred chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa towards Rushdie, calling on Muslims to kill him. The fatwa used to be issued in line with the discharge of the arguable ebook “The Satanic Verses.”

The Islamists deemed one of the vital passages within the ebook concerning the Prophet Muhammad to be blasphemous. The ebook used to be banned in India in 1988 by means of the Rajiv Gandhi executive.

On August 12 remaining 12 months, a 24-year-old Hadi Matar from New Jersey stabbed Rushdie simply sooner than he used to be to begin his lecture at a literary tournament at Chautauqua Establishment in western New York.

He sustained critical accidents and used to be rushed to the clinic. As consistent with studies, the nerve in his arm were given broken within the assault. He additionally sustained liver wounds, and sooner or later misplaced a watch within the procedure.