A Muslim would brutally stab author Salman Rushdie. Even though Rushdie under an Iranian fatwa since 1989 The Other McCain tries to connect the dots
The victim has been under an Iranian fatwa since 1989, but state police in New York don’t want to rush to conclusions:
Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York.
A bloodied Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose.
Go read the rest. The motive does not really seem that hard to grasp, UNLESS you are a leftist of course.