Fake quote of Salman Rushdie goes viral

Salman Rushdie has himself clarified through twitter that he did not state the quote and it is fake.

British author Salman Rushdie released “Victory City, an epic tale of a 14th-century woman who defies patriarchy to rule a city. The novel is based on a historical epic written in Sanskrit. The book was written before the US knife attack that almost killed the author, who was born in India. 

Rushdie’s books are known for their controversial religious themes, and he has frequently been the target of online and offline hatred. After his 1988 novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ was published, he received years of death threats, including a religious fatwa. The author was stabbed repeatedly on August 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, where he was scheduled to give a lecture. During the introduction, a man named Hadi Matar of New Jersey leaped onto the stage and stabbed Rushdie, causing him to lose vision in one eye.

The New Yorker  published a profile of Rushdie on February 6th, ahead of the release of his novel “Victory City,” in which he discussed writing after surviving a near-fatal stabbing in 2022. 

Following this, an anti Islamic quote attributed to Salman Rushdie surfaced on social media. An image depicting the alleged statement alongside a photograph of Rushdie was widely circulated.

The quote reads “The large majority of peaceful Muslims don’t matter because I was attacked by just one Muslim who followed Quran.” It continues, “All religions are not same because they have not codified death to whoever doesn’t belong in their religion. On my life I want to warn the world that Islam will not rest till every society, culture, and religion is either annihilated or converted.”

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Fact Check-

We discovered that the quote was falsely attributed to Rushdie, and he has never said anything similar in any interview or statement. Salman Rushdie addressed the issue on Twitter. He quoted the false attribution and wrote, “Fake quote. Not said by me,”

We conducted a keyword search for the quote because it referred to the attack and found no results, confirming that Rushdie made no such public statements.

Conclusion–

Fact Crescendo found that a fake anti-Islam quote is being falsely linked to Salman Rushdie. The author himself clarified through twitter that he did not state the quote and it is fake.