Did the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps send him to kill Rushdie? The possibility cannot be ruled out. And if he was coming from outside the country, it would have been easy for him to get into the United States, for our first priority regarding immigration and entry into the country is not to appear racist.
“Iran’s IRGC had contact with man charged with stabbing Rushdie – report,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, August 15, 2022:
The suspect arrested for stabbing prominent author Salman Rushdie, Hadi Matar, had been in contact with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a US-designated terrorist organization, prior to the nearly lethal assault on the writer, news organization VICE reported on Sunday.
VICE wrote that a Middle Eastern intelligence official said it was “clear” prior to the stabbing that Matar had been in contact with “people either directly involved with or adjacent to the Quds Force,” the IRGC’s external militia. The US has also classified the Quds Force as a foreign terrorist entity.
“It’s unclear the extent of the involvement – if this was a directly supported assassination attempt or if it was a series of suggestions and directions in picking a target,” the official added.
The official would not speak on the record for diplomatic reasons, the news organization said. VICE attributed its sourcing to European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials who said the 24-year-old Matar had been in direct contact with members of the IRGC on social media….
Matar’s family is from the Hezbollah stronghold town of Yaroun in South Lebanon. Hezbollah is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s main strategic partner in the Middle East.
VICE quoted a mid-level Hezbollah commander from a village near Yaroun who said that “most of the families in Yaroun support the resistance, there is no question of this relationship, but this boy has nothing to do with Hezbollah; we don’t know him and do not want to be drawn into international intrigues involving people we don’t know.”…
mortimer says
As I have suggested previously, jihadists do not usually act alone, but are mentored by mullahs who fanaticize them. Such appears to be the case here. Sharia law is the guiding force in all this, and the mullahs take great pains to conceal their ghostlike presence behind the scenes, so that the ‘image’ of Islam as a ‘religion of peace’ may be preserved in order to deceive the dirty non-Muslim KUFAAR.
Donald Trump once said, ‘I think Islam hates us … we have to get to the bottom of this.’
Yes, the way to do it is to study Sharia and observe for yourself the origin of this CANONICAL HATRED that is incumbent upon ALL Muslims.
mortimer says
Conspiracy, supremacism, mullahocracy and deception (taqiyya) are key parts of Shi’ite Islam.
Hadi Matar is a Shi’ite terrorist. Rushdie was raised as a Sunni Muslim, so the Shi’ites found three different reasons to attack him 1) as a Sunni Muslim 2) as an apostate 3) as a blasphemer.
mortimer says
This revelation that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was mentoring the young man was just contradicted yesterday by the Iranian foreign minister who said that Iran was not involved. Well, he lied, didn’t he?
Almost daily the Iranian Shi’ites shovel heaping loads of malodorous, farm-fresh TAQIYYA.
The mullahocracy has achieved the world championship level in TAQIYYA.
Behind every Islamic terrorist, there is a mullah preaching jihad.
The mullahs say ‘who, what, when, how and where’.
somehistory says
As I posted earlier on a different thread,
“Alleged Rushdie Attacker in Contact With Revolutionary Guard”
“VICE World News over the weekend.
The stabbing had all the signs of a “guided” attack, where an intelligence service inspires a supporter into taking action, without direct backing or involvement in the attack itself, according to a NATO counterterrorism official from a European country.’
from Newsmax article. No mozlum is truly a “lone wolf” even when they are the “lone” person doing the stabbing, bombing, shooting, etc. they have the whole of islam behind them, they are taught that they must act on what they hear from their barracks personnel and from what the read in the unholy book of satan’s directives in order to get that unholy reward of “virgins and young boys.”
they may get specifics…as did the 9/11 hijackers, but they can also make their own choices. He had encouragement but he still may have acted since it had been declared thirty odd years ago that it must be done.
DavidR says
The bounty on Mr. Rushdie’s head stands at over 3 million dollars and remains active 20 years after Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa. However this particular assassin failed to murder him so I doubt there will even be a partial payout. His family in Yaroun are now probably angry with him for not succeeding and not dying a martyr in which case they, as his heirs, would have received the prize money.
Michael Copeland says
A muslim “martyr” also gets to bring his family with him into Islam’s paradise.
maria says
Hadi Matar should be executed. He is an Irani torpedo . He will kill more people again otherwise.
Hank says
“for our first priority regarding immigration and entry into the country is not to appear racist.” or rather to unashamedly and irresponsibly import Islam.
JHL says
I hope he receives the death penalty. I also hope Rushdie survives. He has a right to free speech and free thought.