THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Salman Rushdie Attacker Found Guilty of Iran-Linked Islamic Terrorism.
Hadi Matar, the man who attacked author Salman Rushdie in 2022, has been found guilty of attempting to carry out a fatwa and providing material support to Hezbollah.
Hadi Matar, the radical Islamic terrorist charged with stabbing Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie multiple times, has been found guilty of attempting to carry out a fatwa and providing support to terrorists in federal court . PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - DETAIL: Back in August 2022, then-24-year-old Hadi Matar, a U.S.-born Muslim of Lebanese descent, stabbed Salman Rushdie multiple times while he was giving a public lecture in Chautauqua, western New York. The attack left Rushdie blind in one eye. On Wednesday, the now-28-year-old Matar was found guilty in federal court of attempting to carry out a fatwa (an Islamic legal ruling) issued by the Iranian government. He was found guilty of three charges: attempting to provide material…Open