Salman Rushdie’s attacker Hadi Matar convicted on federal terrorism charges for horrific lecture stabbing

Source: New York Post

A man was convicted Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel “The Satanic Verses. ” A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism. A message seeking comment was sent to Matar’s attorneys.