Salman Rushdie testifies at knife attacker's US trial on terrorism charges
Hadi Matar, a 28-year-old Lebanese-American, is alleged to have been motivated by a fatwa that Ayatollah Khomeini issued in 1989 following Rushdie's depiction of a fictionalized Prophet Muhammad in his novel, 'The Satanic Verses.'
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Salman Rushdie testifies at knife attacker's US trial on terrorism charges
Hadi Matar, a 28-year-old Lebanese-American, is alleged to have been motivated by a fatwa that Ayatollah Khomeini issued in 1989 following Rushdie's depiction of a fictionalized Prophet Muh...
