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Where was Salman Rushdie born?

Famed novelist Salman Rushdie, 75, was born in Mumbai, India, on June 19, 1947. He was stabbed in the neck and abdomen in New York on Aug. 12, 2022, by a 24-year-old New Jersey man.

Why was Rushdie stabbed?

While police said the motive of the young stabber was unclear, Salman Rushdie had been living under a death sentence since Ayatollah Khomeini, the then Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a religious fatwa on Feb. 14, 1989, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie. The reason: His novel “The Satanic Verses” fictionalized parts of the life of the Prophet Muhammad.