The authorities and establishment media will ignore or explain away this ingenuous statement of intent and find the real cause of the attack elsewhere: will Matar soon be declared mentally ill?
“Salman Rushdie attacker praises Iran’s ayatollah, surprised author survived: jailhouse interview,” by Steven Vago and Ben Kesslen, New York Post, August 17, 2022:
The New Jersey man who allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie in Western New York last week praised Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in an exclusive jailhouse interview with The Post on Wednesday — and admitted he didn’t think the author would survive the attack.
“When I heard he survived, I was surprised, I guess,” Hadi Matar, of Fairview, NJ, said in a video interview from the Chautauqua County Jail.
The 24-year-old was mum on whether he was inspired by the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death in 1989 over the author’s book “The Satanic Verses,” citing a warning by his defense attorney.
“I respect the ayatollah. I think he’s a great person. That’s as far as I will say about that,” Matar said, noting he only “read like two pages” of Rushdie’s controversial novel.
“I read a couple pages. I didn’t read the whole thing cover to cover,” he said.
The accused stabber denied being in contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and alluded to acting completely alone.
He said he was inspired to go to Chautauqua after seeing a tweet sometime in the winter announcing Rushdie’s visit.
“I don’t like the person. I don’t think he’s a very good person,” he said about Rushdie. “I don’t like him. I don’t like him very much.
“He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems.”…
His mother, who has disowned Matar over the alleged assault, said the visit “changed” him and that he became more religious and isolated himself in her basement after returning….
Matar said little else about Rushdie specifically but complained about conditions in the jail, where he is being held without bail. “A lot of the food they have given me is not allowed in my religion to eat,” he said, adding that despite that, he is “doing all right.”…
Matar “didn’t bring a wallet. He had cash, prepaid Visa cards with him. He had false identification with him,” Schmidt said….
Matar is being held without bail, in part because prosecutors feared he would be awarded a bounty for the attack.
“Even if this court sets a million-dollar bail, we stand a risk that this bail could be met because of that,” Schmidt said….
PMK says
“A lot of the food they have given me is not allowed in my religion to eat,”
Then don’t eat it. Go on a hunger strike. I do hope the jail he is in doesn’t give in to this and serve him (and everyone else) halal food.
John says
I’m sure CAIR will file a lawsuit against the jail on his behalf.
PRCS says
My thought, too.
Surprised they’re not already on it.
Golem2 says
+1
Bikinis not Burkas says
You are like us in Australia are being fed Halal Certified food without knowing.
Companies pay the fees after an inspection and bowing to the Sharia.
99.99% of Chicken and Lamb sold in Australia is Halal Certified.
The perfect man, NOT, defective DNA.
Muhammad was WHITE!
http://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-2340/
Muhammad was a dwarf and fat!
http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/154
Pray Hard says
Then die of starvation.
Michael Skok says
That should be his sentence, not his choice.
Hank says
”…not allowed in my religion”
Importing a Muslim community into your country were there previously was non is obviously asking for trouble as far as you can see and beyond. The masochist politicians (and their voters) who enable this massive illegal Muslim migration import obviously don’t seem to think that their country has enough problems of its own to solve and use their time on (f.ex. the economy and drugs). Not even a thought goes to stop enlarging the fifth column Muslim community they’ve introduced and enlarged, or shrinking it through repatriation back to an Islamic host-country.
The adherents of the Islamic religion will have it seriously much better in a Muslim host-country. They won’t need to hate so intensely and kill the citizens and visitors around them, kill their daughters for dating an infidel, dot the land with Mosques and claim it’s Islamic land now and forever, et al. Its a win-win environment for everyone.
Infidel says
Just like Govs Abbott and Ducey have done wonders by bussing illegal aliens to NYC and DC, similarly authorities in red states should redirect all their muslim criminals, or their Afghan refugees, to places like DC, NYC, SF and so on. Let them play their havoc there, and then let’s see how those big woke people who are so attached to Left wing government like it. They’ve already shown what they really think of illegal border crossers 😈
Westman says
If this terrorist had done this in 1914s Britain the government would have summarily marched him out and shot or hung him.
Today, people who are simply murderous villains get a megaphone, lights, and cameras to try to justify their actions. The social “sciences” have grown to spout theories about why we should be understanding of the factors that lead to the violent, dysfunctional, person, yet, they have a failing record in changing that behavior. And the prison system listens to it.
The media talks of alleged attempted murder when the provenance of the crime is on the video of a dozen cell phones. It’s insane.
….not allowed in my religion…. OK, let’s use your religion’s approach to justice:
If we were to apply the form of Islamic justice to Hadi Matar, then he is a captured unbeliever who was making war on our religion of Democracy. Since his “religion” doesn’t allow fealty to US Democracy, the remaining options are dhimmitude, or, death. As a dhimmi he could serve the rest of his life paying restitution to Salman Rushdie and if tiring of that, there is always the other option.
Instead of a noose, Hadi Matar will enjoy the comradery of fellow jihadists who will convert more Muslims to violent jihad. He will be a prison celebrity. And if he gets out of prison, he will be a model of ___________. You fill in the blank.
CogitoErgoSum says
He’s a New Jersey man. Yes, it’s important that everyone knows Rushdie’s attacker is a New Jersey man. I’m glad I know that because it makes me think more than ever that Islam should NOT be allowed in the United States. Incitement to murder is a crime. The Koran incites Muslims to murder people. I invite anyone reading these words to prove to me that the Koran does not incite Muslims to commit murder. If the U.S. bans Islam maybe many more countries will do the same. Any religion which encourages its adherents to commit murder should not be allowed to run rampant across the Earth.
Infidel says
No, the problem is all those Jersey boys… Christie Todd Whitman, Chris Christie, Phil Murphy, Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Dr Oz, Hadi Matar…. 😈
Westman says
Notice Mom doesn’t subscribe to any of that Islamic, “men are superior”, lie. Hadi probably wore out his welcome, long ago.
And what is with the Post’s jailhouse interview? Does every murderer and mutilator get a chance to influence jurors before they are even chosen?
Can’t we just envision an article about an innocent, confused 23-year-old who makes his way into a group of jihadists who tell him what a great superior Muslim male he is and of the wonderful things waiting for him if he kills Islam’s enemies? Being either, “mentally ill”, or just that French word, “stupide”, then it’s not really his fault? If Hadi was really smart he would cook up a story about how he was groomed by an FBI operative.
john smith says
I think these American prisons are an absolute disgrace to humanity. It’s just diabolical that this poor man is given food that he is not allowed to eat in his religion. We British make sure that we look after our muslim captives, by providing them with the best halal that we possibly can. We even go to the trouble of turning the toilets around so they don’t have to piss or shit towards the qibla direction. America has a long way to go before they come close to the standards of British prisons, shame on the US for such inhumane behaviour.
Infidel says
Awesome, John, just awesome! 😈 😂 🤣
Wellington says
Seconded.
Infidel says
The prison seems to have hit the right treatment for him. Serve him food that’s definitely not halal, and in fact, anything that’s fried – fry it in bacon fat. Let him do a hunger strike or not: it’s not the prison’s job to provide him halal meals
And this treatment should be applied to all muslim inmates anywhere, and they should be told that they’re being redirected to islam’s version of hell for breaking the law, even if it is man’s law and not mohammed’s
somehistory says
blindfold him and turn him around and around until his ears can no longer function, then tell him which way is his way to get down and ‘prey’ for something to eat. He won’t know up or down, east or west.
give him a dose of the covid to take away his sense of taste and smell, then blindfold him again, and feed him whatever is available and tell him it was delivered by the local mozlum cleric.
Hey, they lie, so they must expect others to lie to them. that is the MO of liars. May as well give them what they so easily accuse others of doing.
Infidel says
Why do that? Just pick a handful of the worst songs you can think of, put it on a playlist, and play it on repeat 24/7 in his cell. He’ll totally lose it
somehistory says
well, I like the original Jersey Boys….the Four Seasons…really like their songs, but maybe he wouldn’t.
How about “Sherry”? They sing about her going on a date and wearing a pretty dress. Or another oldie by another singer, “Itsy Bitsy, Teeny-Weenie, Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini”?
Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl”? so many about lovely young ladies.
Dr K says
Nail this little muslim cunt to a door , boil up some koran pages , he can eat that
#shariaisshit