For many people Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most well-known free speech defender in the current generation. He certainly is one of the bravest people who originally spoke out against Islamic extremism with his 1988 book Satanic Verses.
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death over what he claimed were blasphemous references to Islam. A $3 million bounty was placed on his head for anyone who kills him. The fatwa was never rescinded, and Rushdie spent well over a decade hiding under protective custody.
In recent years Rushdie has been a visible advocate for free speech and has given multiple speeches on issues around the need for freedom of expression. During a speech yesterday he was attacked and stabbed multiple times.
[New York] – Author Salman Rushdie is likely to lose one of his eyes and is currently on a ventilator after he was attacked on stage at a literary event in upstate New York on Friday, a report said.
“The news is not good,” the 75-year-old writer’s agent, Andrew Wylie, told The New York Times. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,” said Wylie.
Rushdie, who is still unable to speak, was attacked by a lone man while speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY, about 55 miles south of Buffalo.
He was scheduled to speak about the United States as a place for exiled authors “as a home for freedom of expression,” according to the institute. After the stabbing, he was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he underwent surgery.
[…] Rushdie’s alleged attacker, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, was arrested at the scene by a state trooper who was assigned to the lecture. (read more)
Personally not a fan of this guy but he was hardly someone worth killing. Apparently Iran thought he was. Which means I need to reevaluate my thoughts on him.
I dunno, feels like this world is spinning out of control. I’m the most optimistic person I know, but even I think things are just getting out of hand. Iran is small potatoes on my radar, but they’re still a tiny evil.
Iran are bigger potatoes than you seem to realise. Their increasing strength (with Obama’s help) was the reason so many Sunni countries ran to be friends with Israel.
Having said that, my knowledge on Rushdie is too limited to comment. But I do know that Iran is something to keep an eye on.
I do understand Iran’s role as boogeyman in the Abraham Accords..just in the grand scheme of things Iran is tiny. China is the big baddie now. Still, I dunno. Can’t ignore them considering their nuclear status.
I think we need to watch both. Iran also has a lot of tentacles. They are behind quite a lot. And they fund Hezbollah who runs Lebanon. They partly own Assad in Syria. Of course, they provide weapons to Hamas. They are all over the Middle East.
And thanks to Bush taking out Saddam Hussein, Iraq no longer keeps Iran in check.
Y’ain’t wrong bud.
It has always seemed that chaotic U.S. Foreign Policy was/is designed to do Maximum Damage to the U.S.A.
Of the many Dictators in the World including the Middle East, of the secular Muslim leaders who least would want Osama Bid Laden gaining any more power, of a country that already was hobbled, dropping bombs and killing innocent Iraqis was the dumbest criminal move possible.
That war made Iran a power center by eliminating the counterbalance of Iraq.
If ever their was a President to be hanged as a War Criminal, Dubya is top of the list.
I have just thought that giving anyone who has ever spent time in Washington DC a license to represent any of us on any level is tantamount to being a war criminal. Yet, despite that assessment, we continue to think our Government is there to help us. My conclusion is that stupid cannot be fixed!
Why didn’t Bush and Cheney declare President Obama as “the most dangerous” after what was done to our ally, Muhammar Ghaddafi? Bush and Cheney apparently did not give a shit about Muhammar Ghadaffi even though he went over to us in the War on Terror.
Central Bank kerfluffle. Ghaddafi didn’t want the CB and wanted to use gold. It’s all about power and $$. Sigh…
Yeah, but Saddam tried to kill his Daddy!
The Iran regime is a pariah. Their IED’s and RPG’s killed and maimed thousands of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. We can never let down our guard when it comes to the threat they pose against us. “First comes Saturday then comes Sunday” is their mantra of death to Christians and Jews.
Iran is Israel’s boogeyman and therefore the Israel First types constantly rail against them. Fact, is we should have never gone and invaded Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place. I’m not blaming America for Iran’s actions but objectively the US has no moral ground to stand on in almost every incursion in the Mideast.
We have no beef with them, except for the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Pan Am flight 103 (Lockerbie bombing) and a few nuclear rockets/bombs Obama bought them, which they could use against us just to show the world who they are. But in general, we are golden…
You are clueless.
Nowadays I have to wonder how much of that Arab spring nation building was See Eye Aye induced. We see how those creeps love to stir up hornets nests and blame the OTHER guy?
Shock and awe, indeed.
Apparently, their ‘build back better’ schemes began a long time ago. Our very own (so-called President) Bam Bam handed Iran pallets of cash, like the billions we’ve just sent to “defend” Ukraine.
Until we clean up our own house, we have no business rummaging through everyone else’s. We could definitely use a mop in aisle 666.
^^^ THIS
You’re kind of on track but are leaving out the real culprits in all this mess, those who have infiltrated and weaponized our government over many decades along with the Vatican, the UN, NATO, and many governments and NGO’s around the world.
It turns out the ultimate enemies are in Europe, specifically Davos, Club of Rome, MI-6, the ECB, the Rothschilds, etc., what’s left of the British Empire and the structures of European banking that have essentially run the west for the last quarter century. And which are now using the offshore dollar markets to intimidate and take over countries and split this one from that one in a divide and conquer strategy.
Once you wrap your mind around that clear fact, a lot of confusion falls away. That’s what’s infecting us. Iran, China, Russia, and now India are all just trying to get free of us and them. That’s why the Saudis and Iran are now having talks, why India and other BRICS-type organizations, why a new global currency is being built. I could go on, but you get the picture. We need to throw away the old templates for viewing things, just like we’ve had to with Democrats vs. Republicans and liberal v. conservative, because they’re using a divide and conquer strategy here, there, and everywhere.
Lucky for us they’re losing their grip, but the damage they’re doing and will do is immense. That’s why I keep saying, things are looking up, but it’s time to assume crash positions.
Whoops, last 250 years.
Exactly.
At one time, I thought the CIA was a respectable organization like the FBI –
oh, I guess I was self-indoctrinated as a child, watching Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. on the tv –
over the years, John Forsythe in “Topaz” and Cary Grant in “Notorious” (both are movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
the current bunch is not working on behalf of OUR nation’s sovereignty and upholding OUE foreign policy – Hillary’s foray into Libya and the death of Muhammar Ghaddafi was not something she did all on her own!
Wasn’t the assassination of Khaddafi a deliberate and premeditated attack on US as well?
When stupid John Bolton brought up the “Libyan model” during talks with Chairman Kim, that put the old kibosh on that, didn’t it – just two words to exemplify how trustworthy America is, “Libyan model”.
Al:
Counter balance to the “bad things” that the current Iran Government did against U.S. interests, the CIA installed the Shah, a Dictator, and a wannabee Absolute Monarch.
Islam is a Dark Ages religion, bent on killing/vengeance. Iran, formerly Persia, is hobbled by the Arab concocted religion of backwardism. The Persian People would be light-years ahead, if they got rid of the shackles of Islam.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but the American People are constantly having to hide their heads in shame as the Deep Cesspool in Washington, District of Corruption, slaughter and rob other nations, in the once good name of America.
Iran is a threat to all countries. The Saudis, Egyptians, Gulf States, Morocco and Israel have all figured this out and that is why ancient adversaries are uniting. President Donald Trump said this over and over. Dumb people, Obama and Biden voters love Iran. So, Marc, I don’t give a damn what you believe.
First reasonably accurate post in this comments section.
..and the Pentagon knew Iran was doing this along with all the traitorous generals. These pathetic excuses for men did NOTHING. They didn’t even talk about it.
Today these same generals and useless woke desk sitters do nothing except hate Christians, Jews , Whites and Trump voters.
….but they do know that Climate Change is America’s #1 Enemy and they say so over and over.
Hope they all die.
They’ll be able to conduct alot of terrorism activities world wide with all that cash Obama sent them. And THAT was terrorism in itself, arming a terrorist country with cash. Who does that???
And Venezuela…
Events in tiny Serbia ignited WWI.
The assassination of the Archduke was chump change compared to Senile Biden/Pedo Pete/Obozo’s self-harming Sanctions against Russia.
The war in Ukraine has obviously emboldened the real threat to the World -China.
Biggest danger to USA is what is “running” the US Government–Traitors/Neo-Bolsheviks
You could scrub the DOJ and FBI in battery acid and never get them clean.
Let’s get started.
How about a Tesla battery FIRE? Will that purify the Agencies?
Gates of vienna site had a very interesting article the other day about how china is not a threat, and they are going downhill pretty quickly. (bankruptcy, diminishing # of males, depleting army)
(hat tip betsy for mentioning that site a while back)
https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/08/china-wont-be-here-for-long/
Gates of Vienna is my one stop shop for figuring out Islam and Europe’s reaction to Islam.
While all the turmoil inside China is mostly true. That is the VERY REASON that Emperor Xi needs a war, an outside diversion to institute Marshall Law.
Funny thing, when the Chinese Communist Dictatorship embraced controlled, somewhat competitive, government subsidized enterprise, to build their once booming economy, they thought a Central Bank was the magic engine that made the magic fairy dust.
They and the U.S. Central Planners are very, very wrong. Like a kid red-lining an engine, eventually they blow up the engine.
Martial law.
Good grief…Iran is ground zero for radical Islamic fundamentalism. If they ever develop or acquire a nuclear weapon they will vaporize Israel, triggering World War III. Furthermore, at every opportunity they shout “Death to America!” And yet you view them as small potatoes? You are part of the problem for you are apparently incapable of seeing things as they are, making you an appeaser of a rogue regime, which perhaps even makes you a pacifist. I await your reply.
Fake.
Just happens to flare up 20 years later as the Iranian nuclear stuff is moving forwards again and they need a narrative to derail it.
Yes. It is. Precisely as predicted.
Things are not falling apart, they are falling together, exactly as foretold by God. The war between good and evil is escalating, also foretold by the Bible. The number of days are getting smaller before it’s all over and God comes for His. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
I’m with you. Wonder if, like Rush would say, it’s time to panic.
Sunni versus Shia, a 1,400+ year-old argument that cannot be settled. The now-arrested Albuquerque shooter is another example. “The Shia Revival” by Vali Nasr, published in 2006, was my first real look at those opposing factions. I recommend it.
Remember when 0bama’s national security advisor with a creative writing degree from NYU Ben “Rat Face” Rhodes whose brother David was president of CBS “News” (DNC co-inky-dink!) helped push through the Iran deal? CK does…
I thought the comments here were supposed to be about the attack on Rushdie? Can we try & stay on topic? Frustrating when you click on an article to hear what others think & find a never ending thread of comments that move further & further off topic.
Discussing the motivation behind the Rushdie attack and who might have enabled it seems to be a legitimate part of this topic.
Chautauqua, dunno. Maybe I am thinking of the wrong town. Isn’t that where a Beast roams in the woods?
Nothing happens by accident anymore, nothing.
Wrong town, Chappaqua is where Hillary lurks….. just southwest of Bedford Hills where Soros lives in Michael Crichton’s hugh-jass mansion
“Magwa hates Hillary” -Magwa
William the Comptroller: I get your movie reference. Two thumbs up.
It’s in Western NY
He was speaking at summer camp where Joe Biden voters can meet and greet.
https://www.chq.org
The lake is beautiful. The Institution is a creepy place.
What’s creepy about it?
I’ve been there many times and I enjoy it during the season. I like the cobblestone streets and Victorian era homes and hotels. You can pick and chose concerts and lectures you wish to attend. It’s a great place to relax and unwind along the beautiful lake.
Correction “was”
It is a super fire trap. I am in and out of the Chautauqua Institute on a fairly regular basis. I sometimes install flooring there and I have attended religious services and concerts there. I do not understand the fire codes there. Maybe there are no fire codes? The buildings are ancient and built on top of one another. Yes, it’s quaint, shady, peaceful, picturesque and inspiring.
The Chautauqua Institute is on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in Chautauqua County, New York. It is the most southwesterly county in New York. The Hildebeast squats just to the north of NYC.
We are better.
The people of the western world are better.
Christians are better.
And lost on the secular Left, they are better because they practice the morals and values of Christians.
Tolerance of savages is savagery itself.
I need to steal that last line.
Yet Jesus preaches tolerance as well as forgiveness. What a conundrum!
Our western churches have been infiltrated by smarmy Marxists like that fake pope, who pushes open borders tolerance in alliance with a New/One World Order.
Christians who still possess their free will must reach deeper.. much deeper.. to understand where we went so wrong.
Jesus Christ was not so tolerant as per the grifters and thieves setting up in the temple.
Nor was Jesus tolerant of the Pharisees who dogged Him at every turn seeking to set Him up.
Forgiveness is the act of allowing God to move in your circumstance instead of you being angry and resentful.
Mr. Rushdie did practice free speech. He did pay a price for it by being in hiding most of the time.
Free speech is everything.
Leftists understand this, and seek to end free speech.
All the liberal democrat values flow from free speech.
What exactly is the point of having an election after a campaign without free and open debate? An oxymoron.
Those who regard themselves as on the top of the hill want to see free speech end. If none can criticize me, I must be beyond criticism.
And stunning how the Leftist went after Alex Jones, AND WON. A person may disagree with what Jones said, and Jones may have said some uncomplimentary things about some of the parents, but the Left go to the parents and convinced them to take Jones out. And it happened. Very scary. They try to break anyone who speaks out in opposition to them.
Steve Bannon is having a special with Alex Jones today, I believe, from 10 to 12 on Warroom.
Well, they certainly like to make examples out of people who stand up for truth, in the hope that the rest of us (a few hundred million patriots) will be intimidated enough to stand down.
In the USA, however, citizens are legally permitted to disagree with others. Freedom of speech, expression and peaceable assembly is codified under our Constitution.
So is freedom of the press, the peaceful transition of power via fair elections and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
Yet.. here we are.
“Investigators unclear on the motive”…
and……it’s islam!…and $3M reward from Iran….which was our money probably.
AND NOBODY SHOUTED A WARNING TO RUSHDIE TO WATCH OUT???? C’MON PEOPLE, ACT!
40 some odd years ago…I am not a feminist but I agree in equal rights and more importantly, equal pay. That said, this is how one country ‘was’ before a ‘take over’.
Sundance said yesterday, that we are at the precipice..I will take it one step further….we have one foot dangling over it.
These are old pictures (the Pan Am tote is telling in the Miss Iran contest)…its been a long time for freedoms in Iran. I also remember seeing pix of students sitting by a fountain, long ago, and it could have been taken in any western country back then.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47032829
https://indie-mag.com/2019/03/miss-iran-70s-freedom/
Remember, the religion of peace has a very long memory when it comes to inflicting ‘revenge’. I am not wondering if they are testing the waters.
Can we nuke Mecca yet? Or tip over that garish hotel clock tower (a ripoff of St. Stephen’s Tower in Parliament) so it flattens their Deluxe Grande Shrine and KAAAAABAAAAA?
😵💫The concern is that a general environment of dealing out violence or death is acceptable to most vocal Uniparty and Globalist leaders in our Constitutional Republic. Calls for such violence and death are frequent and creates easy inspiration for Globalist and Uniparty Cult followers.
🤔It’s not a big leap that such actions await MAGA leaders.
👉Even President Bolsonaro of Brazil suffered such an attack(not to mention the recent assassination in Japan) 👈
At least we have our bread and circuses to entertain us while we await our turn. Faux news, anyone?
I’ll commit the crime of commenting again.
The Treehouse is devoted to the concept of free speech being everything. Everything.
I’ve been struck by the realization that Leftists are upset by free speech. Not just the ideas so expressed, but also by the premise that free people, free Americans can share their ideas.
Leftism is a religion. The ideas permitted fall within a very narrow range. Leftists do not find democracy itself an appealing idea. If the American Republic survives, it will survive despite leftism.
In regard to Salman Rusdie: I understand he is a leftist in many areas. It is, of course, hard to sympathize with such a profoundly foolish man. Liberal democracy is the way forward, that has been obvious for centuries. Yet buffoons like Rushdie survive under our protective umbrella.
The American dream is by far the greatest ideal that the human race has ever conceived. Goofs like Rushdie often attack America while expressing a vision only slightly different. America or feudalism. If you can see another vision, my ears are open.
Who deemed your words a crime and why self penalize yourself over someone else’s dislike for your previous post?
Grow a spine and say what you want. ( Within the Treehouse rules) If people don’t like it shrug your shoulders and continue on.
Hey, I agree, but there are some with good reason, to monitor their free speech. State sanctioned lawfare has a far reach.
Lady Thatcher (then Mrs Thatcher) protected Salman Rushdie and the right of freedom of expressiion, despite the fact that he had at times used “unprintable laguage” when talking about her.
Contrast that with “woke” Sweden, where most politicians stood much closer to Salman Rushdie’s politics than Mrs Thatcher did, no one dared to stand up for him. The Swedish Academy (the one handing out the Nobel Prize in literature) split because the majority of the members did not dare to stand up publically for Rushdie.
If you are conservative you stand up for the principles of a free society.
A lot of lefties from elsewhere use our country’s constitution for their own ends. Personally, I look at their beliefs as those of misguided children.
I was attacked for standing up to my children’s right to an education here, in a ‘people’s republic’ type state and often don’t say what I want to. With good reason. That is not how it should be in any city or state of this country, but it is what it is, and that is sad as we ARE the last so called place of freedom in this universe.
What disgusts me is that there are people who use their money to subvert the ‘will of the people’. America has had an explosion of multi-millionaires…and the rest of us? So much for the land of opportunity. Look at what they have done to 45.
The are misguided adults…which are far worse
No body guard close to him?
Complacency kills.
So does willful blindness open society progressivism and feminism.
You imported the killer or his parents as fine immigrants…they came with their culture.
Now you have buyer’s remorse and are sulking about it.
It’s just America at it’s most irrational best.
24 year old killer doesn’t have a clue of why he did what he did!
Possibly a graduate of one of our self proclaimed elite Ivy League indoctrination factories. Maybe even one of our Catholic colleges like Notre Dame or Georgetown.
You know ,a place where Obama would be happy sending his “he looks like he could be my son” criminals.
None of their products/ graduates seem to have a clue either.
CIA trained?
Hating an infidel is in the DNA. No doubt was raised on hate of the big and little satan. Or is this another distraction?
I read somewhere that Rushdie is an atheist. Not sure if that includes ‘the profit’, Mohammad.
Pray for the recovery of this man who has the courage to speak out against the evils of this world. We should all be able to speak freely of our beliefs, without the fear of retribution, whether it be from over-religious zealots or heavy-handed authoritarian governments.
I’ve added Mr. Rushdie to the nightly prayer list.
This is what every leftist dreams of doing to people who they do not agree with.
I first heard of Chautauqua about 40 years ago. I’m not surprised that Rushdie was speaking there nor that security wasn’t stellar.
It’s sort of a summer camp for grownups. I am by far not an expert on it. I’m really looking forward to those that are commenting. Here or elsewhere.
I think the photo is telling. You have the attacker being controlled by a police officer (State Trooper) and a big guy in red shorts and sandals. I’m curious about him.
Then you have Rushdie on the floor with a few people on their knees helping and a smattering of people around almost like they are looking at a science experiment and wondering what they should do now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua_Institution
How many minutes did this maniac have to carve up Mr. Rushdie before the Libtard snowflakes over came their fear of being called a racist and finally came to Rushdie’s aid? I’m guessing they politely waited until the dirt bag was finished.
Typically, head and neck surgery related to trauma such as this, is a complicated procedure. Plus the liver laceration (or damage) can be serious in itself. I did not read anywhere if his lungs or other structures in the torso were injured (other than his arm).
Leaving a patient intubated overnight, is not uncommon, for many reasons. The patient could be unstable, surgeons could be anticipating a return to surgery (for further repairs or perhaps uncertainty related to current repairs), or a lengthy procedure alone and it is decided the patient needs to “rest” overnight(or longer) and regain/treat for a balance of lab values.
As for all patients I hope for a speedy recovery and justice for the perp.
This attack has a strong resemblance to the 2015 Garland, TX cartoon contest.
Who is dominating the news cycle & needs a distraction & did they provide taxi or other “services” to the perp?
He should have spoke in Texas and hired the guy that sent the two killers to to the boneyard. NY does a very poor job of allowing folks to protect themselves from demonic killers.
Cui bono?
Neck and abdomen wounds.
The demon was going for a kill.
WEll the State Trooper failed at his job if the Religion of Peace nut job was able to hurt Rushdie that badly.
Reminds me of the Texas school performance.😡
This would not have happened under a Trump administration.
The Obiden administration is actively negotiating with Iran, legitimizing the regime to the extent that they are able to carry out their fatwas on our territory.
Obama was always pro-Iran. I hate to say this, but have understood it from noon on January 20, 2021, when Biden was installed: the United States is an occupied country.
Obama is a Muslim and always has been. Locked in with The Muslim Brotherhood”.
All one needs to know about Islam is that the word means, “submission”. It is not a religion, per se; it is a political control mechanism festooned with spiritual curtains and drapes to shield the uncritical eye from discerning the evil that lurks in its shadows. Reading the Koran and it’s key Suras is critical to understanding what’s really on the horizon … because it ain’t the Chinese.
Islam is a violent cult of submission.
Their so-called culture includes honor killings of family members. The reset here is to remember we are infidels and they are obliged to kill us. They always go for the throat.
That Rushdie dared to speak out against them means he has more courage than all of us together. Imagine living your life under such a thing. Shariah law is a real killer and we are beginning to see it here in our own country.
Truth has its hazards. Ask President Trump and his family!
“Rushdie’s alleged attacker, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, was arrested at the scene by a state trooper who was assigned to the lecture” ….and was later released on his own recognizance after being relieved of sharp objects and, it was determined he had dispelled his anger and was no longer a threat.
Im actually surprised that last part didnt happen!
Has any DOJ official rushed to the nearest mic to deplore white supremacist violence after the incident?
Or express the fear of the Muslim community being ill treated because of this? \s
Another FBI miss.
But
The knife made him do it
– not the gun.
And now we wait for the WH to tweet they stand with Muslims…
…just as they did this past week when four Muslims were murdered by…
A Muslim.
Crickets after that small detail was revealed.
National media was preparing to make those killings a big story in the news cycle. Boston media, on the other side of the country from the murders, had big lead ins on the day of the press conference.
When it turned out the killer was an Afghan refugee upset over a inter-sect marriage, the story disappeared. For some reason the media did not want to discuss an Afghan refugee who killed four people in less than a year over religion.
Absolutely. They assumed, and put the proverbial cart before the horse. And made complete asses out of themselves in the process.
So naturally, the book has been closed on their premature rush to capitalize on a situation of their own making…i.e. transporting people from a violent country whose antithetical views were bound at some point, as yesterday, to wreak mayhem and death.
Trump was unvarnished but dead on when he said that these people who come from shit hole nations, they are going to make ours one as well. The Bolsheviks, screamed with indignity. I hear no outcries over Trump’s assertion coming to fruition. When we stop surrendering to the accusations of these people, they will no longer wield power. I hate no one, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to subjugate my thoughts and the truth to their agenda. I’ve been accused of various motives by those seeking our country’s demise. I used to attempt to engage them in factual discussions. That’s not what they want. They want to put you on the defensive, grovel and engage in self loathing. I never believe in killing a fly with a hammer. A good “F You” suffices. Once they realize you don’t give a damn, they move on
They never miss an opposing to exploit a situation like this. Now the perpetrator was a Muslim and its no longer an issue. They feign concern until it doesn’t fit the narrative. Proving they never gave a damn about the victims
Two Muslim girls killed by their father in Dallas recently for straying off the Islamic reservation. At their funeral, their radical imam said this just showed why fathers needed to take control of their daughters.
White House?? I can’t hear you…
Is the father being charged? Or is it a matter of being “their culture “and it’s a-ok?
Is he ever!
Crickets after that small detail was revealed.
Same as their response to black on black murders. At least they’re being consistent.
Every. Single. Time.
If anyone ever needed security… He paid the price and the venue needs to be held accountable too.
…Tell me the Muslim religion isn’t fanatical.
Can’t…
America is no different than Iran now – AG Garland issued a threat from the podium just the other day to anyone who criticizes the corruption and fraud of the DOJ and FBI.
Twitter allows radical HATEFUL Mullahs and Imams spew their HATRED and Fatwas against infidels like Rushdie on their platform. Twitter should be held liable for broadcasting calls to murder Rushdie. Elon can’t buy that cesspool soon enough
All the alphabet agencies we spend billions on to protect America and its Citizens and they can’t seem to identify these people before they commit violent acts. He even had a fake drivers license. They are too busy snooping on conservatives and raiding President Trump’s home.
Correct, that is the priority. Just wait till armed IRS ‘agents’ start knocking on Americans doors.
Every institution of American Life we created to defend our liberty has been weaponized, turned around and pointed back at us. It took them about 10 minutes after passing the Patriot Act to decide the American People were the Real Terrorists.
If not for the Second Amendment, they would have put us in cattle cars already. So they devised a way to put the cattle car in us–the Vaxx. And why Acting Shadow Brain Barack Gog Hussein imported an army of jihadis from Afghanistan–brought here on military aircraft, no less!
These are swinish criminals of the first order, a Government of Gangsters. But fear not–the battle is the Lord’s.
I read, “The FBI had the attacker on their Radar Screen”. With all the unsolved crimes, that must be a humongous radar screen. Does the FBI solve crimes anymore?
“Thanks, Obama!”
I hope this attack wasn’t successful because the US let it happen to please Iran. The Biden regime is really dirty enough to do this to further their sick world agenda. They want Iran to sign a new nuclear deal. How far will the regime go?
As far as letting Iran know where Rushdie was speaking. Biden adores Iran and is hell bent on selling out the United States to Iran.
I find it very interesting that so many of these attempted assassinations and other violence occur in upstate New York.
I live north of the hell hole, NY Sanctuary City and in my county there are other small towns and sanctuary cities as well.
In some cases the illegals are starting to outnumber the natives. Like President Trump says, they are not sending us their best people.
Yes. This.
God be with Rushdie, heal him in mind, spirt and the physical
What a horrible horrible world we have made
Just last year or so they got rid of an old institute special deputy badge private security force because the county sheriff was jealous of it and wanted to be in charge of everything, well now they are.
We should have taken these SOB’s out in 1979 when they took our embassy. Tehran should have been made a lake. It would have destroyed this evil and served notice to the rest of this Islamic swine not to f with us
One would have thought he would have had better security. Seems odd that someone could have gotten so near him and done so much injury so quickly. Perhaps an inside job.
What do Salmon Rushdie and Donald Trump have in common?
Two thoughts
Why was the state trooper assigned as security not able to neutralize the threat?
Was the trooper’s name Mohamed Abdul Farouk or something similar?
When will the family and lawyer of the demon play the “suffering from mental illness get of jail free card?”
I pray that Mr. Rushdie recovers from his wounds and that the followers of this religion of peace suffer the ignomy of chastisement!
Cat Stevens was unavailable for comment.
Let us speak plainly about the Middle East and idiots, among whom are many who think we’re doing great things there.
Pigs will not simply fly… pigs will win dogfights against F-16s before anything in the Middle East (Israel excepted) resembles what any sane person would describe as “a functioning 21st-century nation”.
Anyone who tells you that we will enlighten The Islamic World and bring them current is an idiot.
If they don’t themselves believe what they’re telling you, they think you’re the idiot.
If you believe them, you are.
All Islamic societies are — architecturally — anti-technological, and the more fundamentalist they are, the more this becomes literally true. The paradigmatic fundamentalist Muslim society exists only within the matrix of a pre-industrial dark-age technology where education and wealth are starkly rationed to those at the top of the pyramid, and the bulk of society simply does what it’s told.
Left to their own devices, all of Islam would revert to this in 20 or 30 years. We should let them.
This attack is part of a continuing effort by the religion of peace to suppress any opposition with violence. Since, 9/11 this group has been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide and millions of injuries. The push back on their behavior has only come from China – and the pushback is brutal and sadistic.
Biden’s push to allow IRGC terrorists live in the U.S. (at a minimum) empowered the assailant.
Remember everybody, Trump supporters are the problem! Not 0bama’s Iranian paymasters…
The FBI is warning of rampant “Christian rage” and “Islamophobia” in the wake of a “stabbing” of Rushdie. TBF it was really more of a knife hack attack. The FBI is so helpful.
https://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/dead_poets.htm
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Situational awareness? How did this guy get all the way onto the stage without being stopped, and knife TWO people.
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Because libtard were in attendance is my guess. Worried they would seem racist if they intervened.
As the DNC/MSM quietly celebrates…