Attack on Salman Rushdie: Famous writer Salman Rushdie was stabbed on Friday. The attack happened when he was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute in New York, America. Rushdie, 75, was on stage to deliver a speech, then the unknown person stabbed him. Rushdie came into controversy with his book on Muslim bigotry. Iran had issued a fatwa against him in the 1980s and he had received death threats.