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Salman Rushdie at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013
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Author Salman Rushdie's attacker is currently being questioned by authorities.
According to the New York Times, his mother does not want to help him.
"I don't want anything to do with him," the 24-year-old's mother told the newspaper.
Accordingly, the newspaper had spoken to the woman in the US state of New Jersey on the street in front of her house.
The mother was further quoted as saying that she had nothing to say to her child either.
However, she confirmed that her son returned from a trip to the Middle East in 2018 with a changed personality and increasingly focused on the Islamic faith.
British-Indian author Rushdie was attacked by a man at an event in upstate New York on Friday.
Since then he has been in the hospital with severe stab wounds and is now on the mend.
There is no information on the motive of the perpetrator so far, he has pleaded not guilty.
Meanwhile, after the attack, Rushdie reportedly spoke to investigators.
The author was conscious in the hospital on Monday and answered questions from the officials, the TV station CNN reported, citing police circles.
Rushdie has been persecuted by religious fanatics for decades.
The then Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Rushdie in 1989 because of the novel »The Satanic Verses« and called for the writer to be killed.
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