Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker ‘surprised he survived’ brutal attack

Hadi Matar, 24, has been interviewed from Chautauqua County Jail (Image: AP|Getty Photographs)

The person accused of stabbing Sir Salman Rushdie has stated he's ‘stunned’ to listen to the famend writer is alive in an interview from jail.

Hadi Matar, 24, described the novelist as ‘somebody who attacked Islam’, however wouldn't touch upon claims he was impressed by a fatwa calling for his demise issued by Iran.

He went on to disclose he has solely learn ‘like two pages’ of the The Satanic Verses – Sir Salman’s guide that's thought of blasphemous by some Muslims.

The suspect has pleaded not responsible to fees of tried homicide and assault. He is because of seem in courtroom once more on Friday.

Chatting with the New York Submit from Chautauqua County Jail in New York, he stated: ‘Once I heard he survived, I used to be stunned, I assume.’

Matar stated he had deliberate to go to the lecture on the Chautauqua Establishment after seeing a tweet asserting Sir Salman’s look.

‘I don’t just like the individual. I don’t assume he’s an excellent individual’, he stated. ‘I don’t like him. I don’t like him very a lot.

‘He’s somebody who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the assumption techniques.’

Hadi Matar, 24, middle, arrives for an arraignment within the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022 (Image: AP)

Sir Salman’s guide is taken into account blasphemous by some Muslims (Image: Getty Photographs)

He went onto reward former Iranian chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini – who issued the fatwa in 1989 – as ‘an important individual’.

Confirming that he ‘respects him’, he added: ‘That’s so far as I'll say about that.’

Sir Salman suffered a broken liver and severed nerves in an arm and a watch after  in New York on Friday.

The Booker Prize winner is now respiratory with out the assistance of a ventilator.

His son has stated ‘his common feisty & defiant sense of humour stays intact’.

It comes after the interviewer who sat on stage alongside Sir Salman as he was brutally attacked recalled the surprising second.

Henry Reese, who suffered facial accidents within the incident, stated he's involved for the writer and ‘what he means on the planet’.

He added: ‘Our mission is to guard writers who're in sanctuary and to see Salman Rushdie assaulted for his life is unimaginably… it’s exhausting to explain what it's to see that occur in entrance of you.’

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