Though Salman Rushdie was forced to go into hiding for years in the 1990s, he has been living freely in New York in recent years, his friends say.

When asked last year about the longstanding call for his death, he answered, “Oh, I have to live my life.” https://t.co/OE9fpqafCl

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 12, 2022

A devastating update from Salman Rushdie's agent:

1. He is on a ventilator and can't speak.

2. He will likely lose one eye.

3. The nerves in his arm were severed.

4. His liver was stabbed and damaged.https://t.co/eJ6PvMAWhi

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 12, 2022

Today the man with a loaded AK47 who got arrested in front of my home in New York, has been indicted on a weapons count.
The authority moved me to a safe house.
But to be honest the word “safe” is too luxury for those of us who speak up against Islamists. @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/Wx5QsosweR

— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) August 12, 2022

I am not scared of dying but I believe we must be tough on terror.
The US should kick out Iran’s diplomats & deny a visa to Ebrahim Raisi, for attending the U.N. General Assembly gathering in New York next month.
Please listen and be our voice.#LetUsTalk pic.twitter.com/2WubfRCTTB

— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) August 13, 2022

Guess who defends Khomeini’s FATWA against #Salman_Rushdie?
Mahallati the Islamic Republic’s former ambassador at the UN who is now a professor at @oberlincollege. He has said that the punishment for blasphemy is death.
The US must be tough on terror.
pic.twitter.com/uKYET164lx

— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) August 12, 2022

We Iranians call on @oberlincollege again to investigate about Mahallati the Islamic Republic’s former ambassador at the UN who defends the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I can provide many other documents which shows his role on covering up the mass execution in 1988 in Iran. pic.twitter.com/mFoOjU6JqS

— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) August 12, 2022

There’s been a fatwa on Salman Rushdie from Khomeini since 1989 and the Islamic Republic of Iran never backed off the fatwa .@khamenei_ir repeated it on Twitter as well.
Now Islamic Republic promoters praising the assassination.
& threaten me with the same fate as #SalmanRushdie pic.twitter.com/A383tuNR2J

— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) August 12, 2022

Your words are stronger than their weapons.#masihalinejad & #SalmanRushdi pic.twitter.com/N74Q0T95dc

— Monireh Kazemi (@MonirehKazemi) August 12, 2022

“But we are not all Rushdie. And in fact the past couple decades have led me to wonder if some of us are more Khomeini than we’d like to admit.” https://t.co/LRSzFDlzoD

— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) August 14, 2022

I remember the queue of people who were desperate to condemn Rushdie at the time including the pope who sided with the mullahs. Too few among us realise how precious freedom of speech is

— Steve Metcalf Esq. (@CreativeBS) August 14, 2022

I’m marvelling at the leftist identitarians trying to close down the current free speech debate - talking about ‘relative power’. And with a straight face. As though they aren’t the Establishment. Like they aren’t simply trying to maintain their stranglehold on the culture.

— Dr Philip Kiszely (@KiszelyPhilip) August 14, 2022