When I Google the name Hadi Matar the first article posted from a major mainstream media outlet dates back to Aug. 17, 2022. The headline of this New York Times article reads, “‘I’m Done With Him’: A Mother’s Anger Over Rushdie Attack.”
Five days earlier her son Hadi stabbed, nearly to death, famed author Salman Rushdie on a stage at the Chautauqua Institution, an increasingly woke Christian retreat in western New York.
Rushdie has lived much of his life in hiding following a 1989 fatwa by “Iran’s supreme leader.” Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” had, the Times reminded us, “provoked outrage among some Muslims.”