On Friday, a septogenarian novelist got up to speak in front of a bunch of septogenarians

in New York like he had many times before.

There was at least one twenty-four-year-old in the crowd, which wasn't cause for alarm

until it was.

Renowned author, Salman Rushdie, was stabbed multiple times at a speaking engagement in

Western New York State on Friday.

It's a sad chapter in the life of the outspoken writer, author of the controversial novel,

The Satanic Versus.

No one saw this brutal attack coming, even though for more than thirty years, Iran has had

this fahtwa declared against Salman Rushdie.

But it turns out that thirty-year fahtwa was never really about Rushdie or his writing

at all.

It really was a tragic historic coincidence.

It might not have happened if the book had come out at another time.

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