Author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times at a literary event in New York, back in August 2022. According to Al Jazeera, the police confirmed that Rushdie was stabbed “at least once in the neck, and once in the abdomen” after an assailant rushed to the stage and lunged at the 75-year-old writer just as he was being introduced to the audience.
Against this backdrop, a viral image of Rushdie with a caption on the photo showing hatred towards Muslims is doing the rounds on social media. Many users claim that the author is fine now with an injury to his right eye, and he has criticised Islam for everything that happened to him.
A Facebook user posted the viral post with a caption:
“The large majority of peaceful Muslims don’t matter because I was attacked by just one Muslim who followed the Quran, that too, after 32 years of writing The Satanic Verses.
All religions are not the same because no other religion has codified death to whoever doesn’t believe in it. On my life I want to warn the world that Islam will not rest till every other society, culture, and religion is either annihilated or converted.” – Survivor of Islamic Violence Salman R.
You can check the post here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral picture and found the claim to be false.
Running a Reverse Image Search of the viral picture, we spotted a tweet by the author, dated February 7, 2023, carrying the same picture as in the viral post, with a caption: This photo seems to have vanished from my tweets. Here it is again, just for the record.
We could not find the viral caption anywhere in the tweet, nor did we find any such comment by the author anywhere else online.
Conducting a Google Keyword Search to ascertain whether he actually said the viral claims or not, we spotted a news article titled: Man attributes ‘fake quote’ to Salman Rushdie. I didn’t say this, says the author on the India Today website, dated February 7, 2023.
The article informs that a Twitter user named Lokakasa wrongly quoted renowned British author Salman Rushdie in a tweet about Islam. Rushdie himself retweeted the picture in reply to Lokakasa with a caption: “Fake quote. Not said by me.”
We found the original tweet from February 7, 2023, by Rushdie denying the claim himself.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post claiming that Salman Rushdie warned the world against Islam and blamed the Muslims for the attack on him is false.
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