据美联社报道，当地时间8月12日上午约11点，著名作家萨尔曼·拉什迪在纽约西部的肖托夸舞台正准备演讲时，被一名突然冲到台上的男子刺了10多刀，颈部和腹部受伤，75岁的拉什迪现正入院接受治疗。

Salman Rushdie, a renowned author, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. A bloodied Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery. 

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拉什迪1988年出版的小说《撒旦诗篇》，在穆斯林世界引发极大争议。《撒旦诗篇》被广大穆斯林视为对先知穆罕默德的亵渎。在整个穆斯林世界中，经常爆发针对拉什迪的抗议活动。

Rushdie's 1988 novel was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims, who saw a character as an insult to the prophet Muhammad, among other objections. Across the Muslim world, often-violent protests erupted against Rushdie.

拉什迪1947年6月生于印度孟买的一个穆斯林家庭，从小不信教，被其父视为伊斯兰教的“逆子”。

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自《撒旦诗篇》出版以来，拉什迪30多年来一直遭受着死亡威胁。

Salman Rushdie has faced death threats for more than 30 years since the publication of The Satanic Verses.

1989年2月14日，时任伊朗宗教领袖霍梅尼因对《撒旦诗篇》不满而下发死刑令，出资数百万美元悬赏拉什迪的性命。

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the former supreme leader of Iran issued a fatwa on Feb 14, 1989, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie and putting a price on his head of several million dollars.

在英国政府的保护下，拉什迪被迫开始逃亡生涯，近10年中住在英国警方提供24小时安保的住所。

直到1998年，伊朗总统穆罕默德·哈塔米废除追杀令，拉什迪开始公开露面，但伊斯兰教激进分子依然视他为死敌。

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多位与《撒旦诗篇》有关的人员也遭波及：1991年7月，小说的日语翻译五十岚仁被刺杀，意大利翻译卡普里奥洛受了重伤。1993年10月，挪威出版商尼加德遭到枪击导致重伤。

Many people connected to the book were also targeted, and several were injured. In July 1991, Hitoshi Igarashi, the novel's Japanese translator, was stabbed to death and its Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo, was badly wounded. In October 1993, William Nygaard, the novel's Norwegian publisher, was shot three times outside his home in Oslo and seriously injured.

目前，美国警方确认刺伤拉什迪的袭击者是来自新泽西州费尔维尤的24岁男子哈迪·马塔尔。他在现场被捕，正在等待传讯。马塔尔在《撒旦诗篇》出版的十年后出生。警方表示袭击的动机尚不清楚。

US police identified the attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey. He was arrested at the scene and was awaiting arraignment. Matar was born a decade after The Satanic Verses was published. The motive for the attack was unclear, a police officer said.

编辑：朱迪齐