Salman Rushdie was speaking at a literary festival in western New York state when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and knifed him in a frenzied attack. Matar was found guilty on Friday.

This week's column considers the growth of Islamic fundamentalism following the Iranian revolution in light of the reaction to Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Concerning the Ayatollah's ...

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Rushdie, an atheist born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in India, has faced death threats since the 1988 publication of his novel "The Satanic Verses", which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ...

Defendant Hadi Matar arrives for his trial on charges of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault dating to an attack on Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie, at Chautauqua County ...

Hadi Matar, 27, now faces a sentence of more than 30 years in prison, along with federal terrorism-related charges ...

An American-Lebanese man was found guilty Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the "Satanic Verses" author. Hadi Matar ...