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Biden’s Appalling Statement on Rushdie Attack Ignored the Most Important Detail

by Joe Saunders

 

When it comes to Friday’s near-fatal attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, what President Joe Biden didn’t say said it all.

The Indian-born writer — a naturalized American citizen — was fighting for his life on Sunday after a vicious stabbing Friday on stage, just before he was to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state.

On Saturday, the Biden White House issued a statement denouncing the attack, but there was one crucial detail that went unmentioned — the virtually certain role of the Islamic Republic of Iran in inciting the bloodshed.

The suspect in the case, the man captured while attacking Rushdie so viciously that the writer is likely to lose an eye, according to the Associated Press, is a 24-year-old named Hadi Matar.

Matar, a law enforcement source told NBC News, has social media accounts that “he is sympathetic to Shia extremism and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps causes.”

 

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