A few days after author Salman Rushdie suffered a serious stab wound after he was attacked in New York, the man – accused of attacking him – said that he was surprised that Rushdie survived. “When I heard him survived, I was surprised, I thought,” Hadi Matar, who was 24 years old to the New York Post.

He also expressed his displeasure with the 75 -year -old writer who had faced the threat of death – for many years – because of writing “Verses -Ayat Satan”, which was accused of blaspheming. However, he also clarified that he was not inspired by them in 1989 Edict, or Fatwa , issued under the former Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini against Rushdie.

I respect Ayatollah. I think he’s a great person. As far as I will say about it, “said Matar, who according to the position, was suggested by his lawyer not to discuss this problem. In the first interview since the attack, Matar also said that he had read” some of the pages “from the controversial book.” I don’t like that person. I don’t think he’s a very good person, “he said.

He described Rushdie as “someone who attacked Islam”. He attacks their beliefs (Muslims), the belief system, “Matar added in an interview. Rushdie, 75, stabbed on Friday while attending an event in New York Western. He suffered a broken heart and a nerve that was cut off in the arms and eyes and eyes, his agent said.

He was likely to lose his injured eyes. His condition was still serious when he did not have a ventilator. Matar was arrested immediately after the attack from the venue and handed over to the police. He was charged with an attempt to murder and assault and had claimed to be innocent in court. He would now now appeared in court on Friday.

Outside all the time ‘

In the interview of the New York Post, Matar also said that he had learned Rushdie to speak in the Chautauqua Institution Literature series through tweets earlier this year. He told the post that he had taken the bus to Buffalo one day before the attack, before bringing Lyft to Chautauqua. After this he wandered quite a lot, did not do anything specifically … just walking,” Matar said.

On Monday, Ms. Matar, Silvana Fardos from Fairview, New Jersey, gave interviews with local British daily. In the interview, he described Matar as “a gloomy introvert” who became increasingly fixated on Islam after visiting Lebanon to see his isolated father.