Salman Rushdie attacked

Zefan said:
A stab to the neck doesn't sound amazing, hopefully it's relatively superficial. I'm surprised no one has had a pop before, unless I've just missed that?




I'm not sure if I'm reading the room wrong, but is there a reason we're avoiding referring to Islam/Muslim extremists? Its hardly likely to be a diehard Catholic :p
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You know it triggers some people, hence the non descript title...
 
Mr Jack said:
Quite. From @Sankari's link:

Although British bookseller W.H. Smith sold "a mere hundred copies a week of the book in mid-January 1989", it "flew off the shelves" following the fatwa. In America it sold an "unprecedented" five times more copies than the number two book, Star by Danielle Steel, selling more than 750,000 copies of the book by May 1989. B. Dalton, a bookstore chain that decided not to stock the book for security reasons, changed its mind when it found the book "was selling so fast that even as we tried to stop it, it was flying off the shelves". Rushdie earned about $2 million within the first year of the book's publication, and the book is Viking's all-time best seller.​

It'd be nice if it made it back into the bestseller lists as a result of this.
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With those figures he probably welcomed the fatwa!
 
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