cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50068612
A man was convicted Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel “The Satanic Verses.”
A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.
A message seeking comment was sent to Matar’s attorneys.
Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an amphitheater stage. The federal conviction carries a potential life sentence.
Rushdie, who was about to speak on writers’ safety, was slashed 15 times in front of a stunned audience. He was gravely wounded and lost the sight in his right eye.
I cannot be anti-religious?! Are you kidding me?!
This place is more overmoderated than the worst reddit subs WHAT the FUCK
Don’t they know your form of bigotry is based in logic and reason? So much different than all those other bigotries that only have… wait… oh no! It looks they all rationalize themselves using logic and reason. But that can’t be, don’t they know that your bigotry is the only correct one? Surely… no… yeah… yep, it looks like there’s no fundamental difference between yours and anyone else’s. Just made up lines and people pissed about people being on different sides of those imaginary lines. Oh well, I guess that’s how the cookie crumbles