(19 Aug 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 19 August 2022
1. Wide of people on library steps with letters that spell Stand With Salman
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Solomon, Writer:
I think that it is not so far as I can see coincidence that this happened now. We are living in a time when the right of free speech has been under constant assault. Assault from both the left and the right: when there have been closings of libraries, books removed from schools, where everything used to be tokens of American's freedom of speech is under threat. And so the idea that the fatwa managed to stay at bay for so long and that this appalling attack took place now is not happenstance. It's not happenstance. It's a reflection of something we all have to fight to control, to change, to release from control so that free speech will once again be ours.
3. Security guard with poster showing book cover of The Satanic Verses
4. Tight on poster with book cover
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gaetano "Gay" Talese, Writer:
"Salman's life is our life and his death, and his injury, is ours. We share in the turmoil of the day the wounding of the and the hurting and the hurt brought upon a wonderful writer by a savage figure. The fact that it happened in United States and not in Iran or not in Afghanistan or not in China or Taiwan - it indicates how how this country is so unprotected. All the preaching and all the army we have and the freedoms we enjoy and that are threatened does not protect some of our outstanding people, such as Salman Rushdie. And it reminds us of how vulnerable we all are. We can't live in a police state. We can't have security around. Even people who are the members of the Secret Service can't always protect the president. We know that. But we also know that what happened at Chautauqua was unforgivable. I am not for law and order so much in this case. I think we all feel we writers, we editors, we have agents, people who love to read, hate to hear and hate to read about what happened to Salman Rushdie. And this evening, this afternoon, I should say, was just a manifestation of a mood that all of us share of remorse. Remorse and anger, really anger as well. That's what this meant to me."
6. Various of police and crowd
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tina Brown, Journalist:
"Absolute shock, absolute devastation, absolute solid, solid desire to show the solidarity for him. I mean, the courage that Salman has shown, the care for other writers in the middle of his own trauma all of these years, the fact that he thought that it was behind him and then this cruel blow which will drive him back into hiding, let alone suffer these brutal wounds, you know, has just horrified everybody."
8. Various of rally
STORYLINE:
Prominent members of the literary community held a rally on the steps of the New York Public Library on Friday to show solidarity with Salman Rushdie.
Literary figures such as Gay Talese, Andrew Solomon and Tina Brown took turns reading Rushdie's writings aloud.
Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats from Iran's leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen last week by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. Rushdie, 75, is getting treatment in a Pennsylvania hospital for severe wounds.
Police identified the attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey. He was arrested at the scene.
Rushdie has faced death threats for more than 30 years over his book "The Satanic Verses," whose depiction of the Prophet Muhammad was seen by some Muslims as blasphemous.
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