“A man with a knife cannot shoot a man with a pen.” Two days after the attack on Salman Rushdie, the Democratic governor of the state of New York, where the writer was attacked, he spoke at a press conference.
“The assailant, after many years, has made this threat to the life of (Salman) Rushdie,” stressed Kathy Hochul, while the author of the satanic verses has been the target of a fatwa from Iran since 1989. Currently hospitalized with serious injuries, the writer is “on the road to recovery,” his agent assured the US media. For Kathy Hochul, Salman Rushdie is “a symbol for all of us”.
“Tolerance will always prevail over hate”
“We condemn this cowardly attack on Rushdie and … we will continue to face these events with courage,” he said.
“Wisdom will always prevail. Tolerance will always prevail over hate, courage will always prevail over fear, and the pen will always prevail over the knife,” the Democrat hammered.
The British writer was stabbed ten times by a young American of Lebanese descent at a conference at a cultural center in the small town of Chautauqua, in the northern United States.
“Although his injuries are serious and life changing, his usual spirited and provocative sense of humor remains intact,” his son Zafar Rushdie said in a tweet intended to be posted on behalf of the family.
Source: BFM TV
