News about Andrew Wylie

Haason Reddick of the Eagles retaliates against Brian Baldinger over a series of offhand Super Bowl field remarks

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 15, 2023
Reddick was unable to consent to a tweet posted by 'Baldy' revealing footage of Chiefs right offensive tackle Andrew Wylie blocking him on a play where he seemed to slip when attempting to rush the passer. In reaction to Baldinger's tweet, the 28-year-old wrote, 'You made a video showing how it was slippery all game.' "I'm sure I slipped like I did the majority of the time.' 'You know better than this Baldy.'

In a 'brutal' knife attack in New York, Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye and the use of a glove

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 23, 2022
Salman Rushdie (pictured left), best known for his book The Satanic Verses, which triggered a glutwa calling for his assassination of Iran's supreme leader, was stabbed multiple times in the neck and chest as he took to the stage to deliver a talk on artistic liberty at the Chautauqua Institute (inset). At the time, it was not clear if the 75-year-old would survive the assault, with his convicted killer Hadi Matar (pictured right), 24, saying in a jailhouse interview that he was'surprised' that the author survived. And now, agent Andrew Wylie has revealed for the first time how serious Mr Rushdie's injuries are in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Pas.

Joanne Harris under pressure as she calls row with JK Rowling 'fabricated'

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 17, 2022
Joanne Harris, a Chocolat novelist, has dismissed JK Rowling's dispute as 'fabricated' as she fights to resign from her position as Chair of the Society of Authors after the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie. Rowling, 57, had tweeted her love for Rushdie after she was given a vile death threat from an Islamist militant who told her, 'Don't worry, you are next.' Harris, 58, then published a survey on Twitter asking 'Fellow-authors: have you ever been a victim of a death threat (credible or not).' The response options were 'Yes', 'Hell, sure', 'No, never', and 'Show me, dammit', with others dismissing this as implying doubt about how serious the risks were.

Joanne Harris, a feminist writer, has been pushed to depose Joanne Harris as chair of the Society of Authors

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 16, 2022
In an open letter to the trade union, radical feminist Julie Bindle, bestselling authors' Christina Dalcher, Anne Fine, Alex Marwood, and Paula Byrne, as well as journalist Helen Joyce, expressed their 'deep disquiet' for the organisation's refusal to speak out against violent threats to its members.' Harris shared on social media after a 'online assault' was made to the Harry Potter author, which police are probing. Rowling had been tweeting her support for Sir Salman following the on-stage assault on Friday, prompting the message, "Don't be concerned, you are next." Harris, 58, a trans rights advocate, wrote: 'Fellow-authors, have you ever been a victim of a murder threat (credible or not).' The response choices were 'Yes,'Yes,'Hell, yes', "No, never," and "Show me, dammit," with some interpreting this as implying doubt about how serious the threats were.

As she returns, JK Rowling accuses Chocolat novelist Joanne Harris of "betrayal."

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 16, 2022
Following a 'online threat' made to JK Rowling (left), which police are probing, Joanne Harris (right), who is facing calls to resign from the service, who is investigating. When she was asked by someone online on Friday, she was tweeting her support for Sir Salman Rushdie in the aftermath of his stabbing, she said, 'Don't be concerned, you are next.' Harris, 58, who has been outspoken on the trans topic, wrote: "Fellow-authors" has ever been a death threat (credible or not).' The Chocolat novelist's response options (inset) were 'Yes', 'Hell, yes', "No, never," and 'Show me, dammit', implying mistrust about how serious the dangers were. Women who disagree with Harris on gender identity were'sententled' by her for not displaying'solidarity,' Rowling said after being'silenced and threatened' over their beliefs.

Salman Rushdie's son claims that the author spoke "a few words."

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 14, 2022
Salman Rushdie (far left) has been able to talk and has maintained his 'usual feisty and defiant' sense of humor since being stabbed at a literary performance in New York, according to his son Zafar (second from left). Despite doctors' ability to pull him off a ventilator, Zafar Rushdie, 42, posted a heartfelt update on his father's illness, which is still 'critical.' On Friday, the Booker Prize-winning author, 75, was knifed up to 15 times before a literary talk at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York (top right). Hadi Matar, a 24 year-old suspect, has been charged with attempted murder and assault. He has signed a not guilty plea. Rushdie is being held at UPMC Hamot Surgery Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, and he's also pictured at the bottom right.

Salman Rushdie told two weeks ago life 'very normal again' and fears of an attack were in the past

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 14, 2022
Salman Rushdie said that death threats have become more frequent than they used to be weeks before he was stabbed, and that his handler confirmed the author is on the 'road to recover'. In an interview with German magazine Stern earlier this month, Mr Rushdie said that death threats have 'have become more normal,' but that the fatwa no longer terrorized him. A fatwa is a serious thing,' he said. We're lucky that we didn't have the internet back then. By fax, the Iranians would have brought the fatwa to the mosques. That's all long time ago. 'It's now normal to me.' The call on Muslims around the world to murder the India-born author in 1989, the Satanic Verses, was deemed blasphemous. On stage in New York, the British-American author, 75, was taken off a ventilator two days after being stabbed up to 15 times by radical Hadi Matar, a fourth author. A friend who visited Rushdie this morning reports that he can even 'talk and laugh.' Andrew Wylie, his agent, said this afternoon, 'He's off the ventilator,' so the road to recovery has begun. The pains are extensive, but his health is in the right direction,' he says.' Rushdie, he said, had the nerves strained in one of his arms, would likely lose an eye, and had suffered liver damage.

As a result of the police probe, Harry Potter film studio Warner Bros condemns JK Rowling's death

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 14, 2022
On Twitter (inset top) by Meer Asif Aziz (right), a Harry Potter writer and free speech activist (left) who has been chastised for her feminist convictions, had expressed her horror at Rushdie's (inset bottom) life in upstate New York when she was first issued the chilling threat on Twitter (inset top) by the Harry Potter author and activist (right). Warner Bros. extended its assistance to Ms Rowling today, saying that the company honors its writers and designers who "bravely voice their ingenuity and viewpoints." 'Warner Bros' was added to a quote.' JK Rowling's threats have been strongly condemned by Discovery. We stand with her and all the writers, storytellers, and designers who bravely state their ingenuity and opinions.'

According to a friend, Salman Rushdie is off ventilator and speaking a day after the attack

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 14, 2022
Salman Rushdie, a writer, had been taken off a ventilator and was able to talk Saturday, a day after being stabbed as he planned to give a lecture in upstate New York. Rushdie's remained hospitalized with serious illness, but fellow author Aatish Taseer announced in the evening that he was 'off the ventilator and talking (and joking).' Andrew Wylie, Rushdie's representative, confirmed the information without providing further details. The man accused of assaulting him at the Chautauqua Institution, a non-education and retreat center, pleaded not guilty to murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor described as a "preplanned" felony earlier this day.

Joe Biden was devastated by Salman Rushdie Clinton's brutal cowardly assault

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 14, 2022
Joe Biden praised the author for his "instinct, universal ideals" on Saturday. The president has praised the author's ability to post ideas without fear. After the stabbing, which left Biden's heartbroken and sad, Biden said he and Jill Biden prayed for Rushdie and thanked those who came to the writer's aid.' Hillary Clinton expressed: "I'm horrified by the cowardly assault on Salman Rushdie, and I'm hoping for his speedy recovery." Rushdie, 75, was at a literary festival hosted by the Chautauqua Institution to discuss how vital it was for the US to offer asylum to exiled writers. Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, reportedly rushed on stage and knifed Rushdie repeatedly before being tackled by spectators. Rushdie sustained three stab wounds to the right front of his neck, four to his stomach, one each to his right eye and chest, and the other to his right thigh.

After the Salman Rushdie attack, JK Rowling is a DEATH THREAT from Islamists

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 13, 2022
JK Rowling, a British writer, has been threatened by an Iran-backed Islamist terrorist who appears to have lauded Salman Rushdie's deposed tyrant, and has repeatedly praised Tehran's theocratic tyrant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and has branded Israel, Ukraine, and India as "terrorist states." On Twitter, the Harry Potter writer and free speech campaigner, who has been mocked by trans activists for her views on gender, expressed her dissatisfaction with Rushdie's life in upstate New York when she was given the chilling warning. Meer Asif Aziz, a'student, social activist, and academic activist based in Karachi, has written tasteless 'jokes' about how to destabilize Israel and branded it and Putin-savage Ukraine, as well as Pakistan's top geopolitical rival India.' In deranged, genocidal tweets, Aziz seems to be defending Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei, who often rants about Israel. For example, Aziz responded with a heart emoji in one of Khamenei's posts on the 'oppressive Yazidis.' Rowling, 57, had written about Rushdie's stabbing last night: 'Horrifying news.' Right now, I'm really sick. Allow him to be ok.' Aziz, who had described Rushdie's suspected attacker Hadi Matar, 24, as a'revolutionary Shia fighter,' then threatened, 'Don't be concerned you're next.'

Salman Rushdie's'reprehensible' attack was condemned by the White House, who described the assault as 'appalling.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 13, 2022
Hadi Matar, 24, who hopped onto the stage to address a speech at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, assaulted Rushdie, 75. The White House has condemned the'reprehensible' attack. It was a 'appalling' act of violence against the Satanic Verses author,' according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on behalf of the White House.

Salman Rushide was stabbed in a shocking video seconds, and the audience rushed to assist following the attack

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 13, 2022
Onstage in New York, a new video clip shows the moment audience members tackled a knifeman moments after he stabbed Salman Rushdie on stage, while the author remains on a ventilator and faces the possibility of losing an eye today. People are heard screaming and gasping as a dozen audience members rushed to the stage and crowd around the insurgent who had been led to the ground by a police officer in the three-minute clip. Meanwhile, several audience members also appear to surround the author and help him hold a banner for the occasion as the event's concerned visitors continue.

Salman Rushdie's attacker is lauded by Iran state media

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 13, 2022
Iran's deranged theocratic tyrant celebrated Salman Rushdie's sickening attack on yesterday, lauding the British author's ostensible knifeman and branding the novelist as 'apostate' and 'heretic,' whose book The Satanic Verses 'blasphemed' the Prophet Muhammad. Onstage in upstate New York more than 30 years after the author and those concerned with the publication of the 1988 novel were stabbed up to 15 times, including once in the neck. Sir Salman went into hiding for a decade under an alias and round-the-clock police watch – fueling world riots and book burnings. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, This morning, Iran's newspapers were published, correct.

JK Rowling condemns Salman Rushdie's 'horrifying' attack

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 13, 2022
After being stabbed multiple times by a suspect knifeman with alleged sympathies to Iran's draconian ideology, British author JK Rowling condemned the 'horrifying' attempt on Salman Rushdie's life in upstate New York. 'People who menstruate,' the Harry Potter writer, who has been mocked in public by trans activists ever since she objected to the term'people who menstruate,' said on Twitter.' I'm starting to get sick right now. Let him be ok. Rowling, 57, also posted tweets from journalists Stephanie Merritt and Hadley Freeman, who praised Rushdie's courage after the Indian-born author, who is now 75, was forced to go into hiding for a decade after the regime in Tehran issued a fatwa calling for his assassination in 1989.

Salman Rushdie's driver's license was faked by a man who stabbed him in the name of HEZBOLLAH's chief, a 24-year-old man

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 13, 2022
After being stabbed up to 15 times by a suspect police have identified Salman Rushdie as a man from New Jersey with sympathies against the Iranian government, he is on a ventilator, can't talk, and is likely to lose an eye.' Authorities descended on the Fairview, New Jersey home of 24-year-old Hadi Matar just hours after he allegedly assaulted Rushdie onstage at a literary festival in upstate New York. Hassan Mughniyah was the fake driver's license discovered on 24-year-old Hadi Mater. Hezbollah, the first and second names, are linked to Hezbollah, a notorious terrorist group. Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's current leader, is named Hassan Nasrallah. Imad Mughniyeh, one of the company's most prominent figures, was one of the group's most well-known figures. In 2008, he was assassinated in Syria by a CIA-linked assassination. Mater's social media pages, according to NBC New York, he was sympathetic to Shia causes, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC has been linked to Hezbollah since the 1980s, providing training and support to the mainly Lebanon-based terrorist group. Hezbollah's emblem is based on the IRGC's. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah party is mainly motivated by its resistance to Israel and its resistance to Western influence in the Middle East, according to the Council on Foreign Relations' profile on Hezbollah.' During the shooting, witness testify that the perpetrator wore black clothing and a black mask.

Padma Lakshmi, Salman Rushdie's fourth wife, was seen out in NYC after his former husband was stabbed

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 13, 2022
Padma Lakshmi, the fourth wife of novelist Salman Rushdie, was seen out in New York on Friday afternoon, just hours after her former husband was injured and on a ventilator after being stabbed at a literary festival in Buffalo by a suspected Iranian government sympathizer. Rushdie, 75, is on a ventilator, unable to talk, and will possibly lose an eye, according to his handler, who confirmed it following the attack. Rushdie was about to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in New York when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s. Just a few hours after the stabbing, Padma Lakshmi, his fourth wife, was seen out in New York City sporting a denim jumper, face mask, and glasses. The two were married in 2004, but their union lasted just three years. Rushdie was married four times and had a string of high-profile romances starring Lakshmi, Olivia Wide, and models decades younger than him.

Salman Rushdie, who is unable to talk, will definitely lose an eye after being stabbed

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 13, 2022
Salman Rushdie has been stabbed up to 15 times by a suspect police named as a man from New Jersey "with sympathies against the Iranian government." Rushdie's condition was reported by his agent just before 7 p.m. on Friday, just hours after the author was repeatedly stabbed by Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. He was arrested at the scene. 'The news isn't encouraging,' he said. The salman will undoubtedly lose one eye; his arm's nerves were swollen; and his liver was stabbed and damaged;' Rushdie, 75, who has been plagued by death threats from the Iranian regime since the 1980s, was targeted while being welcomed to the CHQ 2022 festival in Chautauqua, near Buffalo, on Friday morning. According to law enforcement reports, Matar is sympathetic to the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

How hundreds of people erupted as they watched a masked knifeman leap on stage in 20 seconds of terror: hundreds of people coughed

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 12, 2022
After being stabbed in the neck on stage (top, thought to be Rushdie) in America, Sir Salman Rushdie was undergoing emergency surgery (airlifted, bottom right). An attacker who came out of the audience as he prepared to give a lecture in western New York state, wounded the celebrated author who has been fighting Islamist death threats for three decades. Witnesses saw the knifeman strike 'ten to fifteen times' in a matter of seconds before Rushdie, 75, collapsed to the ground covered in blood (left, middle). As the writer was being welcomed to a cultural festival before delivering a statement about artistic free expression, the perpetrator, dressed in black and wearing a black mask, stormed the Chautauqua Institution. Hundreds of protesters in the audience erupted and bloodshed (bottom right) could be seen on the stage and surrounding furniture. The Booker Award-winning author was surrounded by workers and fans, some of whom were clutching their legs in an apparent attempt to add blood to his chest. After the horrific attack at 11 a.m. local time, security guards and audience members pinned down the perpetrator on stage (middle) as the audience was encouraged to safely leave the amphitheatre. The perpetrator was apprehended by a New York state trooper (middle, right), and he was arrested by police. Officials would not speculate about the motives.

Salman Rushdie has been injured after being stabbed in New York prior to his address

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 12, 2022
Salman Rushdie, a writer, was wounded after being stabbed on stage ahead of a speech he was scheduled to deliver in Chautauqua, near Buffalo, on Tuesday. Before speaking on Friday morning, the writer was attacked as he appeared on stage for the CHQ 2022 event. He was in London for a discussion of the United States' asylum for writers and other artists in exile, as well as as a home for creative expression. Rushdie has previously been threatened for his writing, with his book The Satanic Verses causing uproar in 1988. He wrote the Satanic Verses, which culminated in a culture war in 1988 in the United Kingdom, with demonstrations taking place in the UK as well as book burnings. Pakistan banned the book and Ayatollah Khomeini, the book's owner, received a fatwa - a death sentence - in February 1989.