Author JK Rowling has acquired a public menace from an Iran-backed extremist, following her denunciation of yesterday’s assault on fellow British creator Salman Rushdie.
JK Rowling has instructed her followers that the police are concerned after a tweet about Salman Rushdie prompted a loss of life menace on Twitter (Photo: AP)
Author JK Rowling has acquired a loss of life menace for a tweet condemning the assault on Salman Rushdie. Rowling, 57, took to Twitter to share screenshots of the menace message from a consumer.
The Harry Potter creator had reacted to the stabbing incident involving Rushdie with a tweet saying she felt very sick and hoped the novelist can be okay. In response, a consumer wrote: “Don’t worry. You are next.”
The Twitter deal with, which issued the loss of life menace, had additionally praised Hadi Matar, the assailant from New Jersey who stabbed Rusdhie a number of instances throughout a literary occasion in western New York on Friday.
Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator with a broken liver and will lose a watch after he was stabbed by Hadi Matar, who apparently sympathised with Shia extremism and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Matar has since been charged with tried homicide within the second diploma and assault within the second diploma, and police are probing the motive behind the assault.
Rushdie’s ebook ‘The Satanic Verses’ has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims contemplate it to be blasphemous.
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