Salman Rushdie: 'Watching the pool of my blood spreading, I thought: I'm dying' | Exclusive

Sir Salman Rushdie has described the “matter of fact” realisation that he was dying after being stabbed in 2022, in a reading from his memoir recorded exclusively for The Telegraph.
The Booker Prize winner recounts how he willed himself to carry on living as he watched a pool of blood “spreading out from my body” after the on-stage attack as he prepared to deliver a lecture in New York state.
Sir Salman’s account of the stabbing and his recovery from it, called Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder, is published today.
Sitting in the book-lined office of his agent in New York, Sir Salman is able to hold the book with his injured left hand, which was badly damaged when he was stabbed more than a dozen times by a suspected Islamist fanatic.
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[@bearowen5480]

Powerful, very powerful. I'm so grateful that this literary giant of a man was spared for us! Long live Salman Rushdie, he has more to tell us about life.

[@DieterDuplak314]

and only despise and utter contempt for the disgusting perpetrators and their primitive deranged totalitarian barbaric social control ideology ..lest not forget which antiliberal, anithumane demented ramblings are behind the attack on this great man!

[@arleneirvine1526]

i crashed in a float plane many years ago, ended upside down at the bottom of a lake, my first thought was oh, i never thought i'd die this way, no fear, no panic, just genuine surprise, i lived , obviously.

[@Alfakkin]

❤

[@theworldaccordingto4555]

A fantastic writer & author (and a hardline atheist)... A great man. May he live long and treat us all to more of his thoughts and literature.

[@civilengineer3349]

What an extraordinary man

[@mus3504]

How do u know ? where u married to him?

[@TGHO45789]

Amazing video and remember everyone to keep going

[@julianavellaromero3378]

Salman is good for mankind. What a set of balls he has!

[@cgstudiosthebaconbro]

My dad was in the military, his friend died in his arms and he was athiest, I wonder if his friend was thinking a similar thing about dying alone from the family while somebody is nearby while dying

[@johnshepard8556]

Sorrh to hear that but people should not treat there lives like a lottery like they do in the military with young men needlessly sacrificing there lives for greedy old men as life is sacred especially young life

[@ayoolukoga9829]

It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Hebrews 9:27

[@EllaBella-76]

@cgstudiostebaconbro •I imagine your Dad’s best friend only cared that someone was there trust me I have come very close I had a major accident what was bazaar was I argued with the Air Ambulance medic about the need to cut off my clothes how bazaar that I should not even realise it took me ages to actually understand when I saw my brother crying I could not even figure that out ?But a friend died in that same accident I think that was worse it gave me horrendous PTSD -I can’t actually remember much -Here he is talking about his clothes my Silk blouse ?

[@lesleywild8706]

If only every Imam could go through the same experience - the rubbish that they believe in might shrink to insignificance.

[@bumblebee8653]

Love and well wishes from Australia. ❤️

[@nurseSean]

That was a powerful passage. That message on this channel makes it geometrically more moving: not times two but squared. Разом ми переможемо

[@nurseSean]

OH wait, I thought this was, a particular Ukrainian media source. still a perfect platform for the message 😀

[@keith8609]

A very brave man may he have a long life

[@PPitambarP]

Dear Sir, dying body hits the soul very very hard (harder than sickness).

[@AlchemistOfNirnroot]

Powerful.

[@zamiadams4343]

Such a great man, freedom of speech is EVERYTHING.

[@suchitranag5198]

Eager to read 💐 and to know what are the other books into your bookshelf 🙏

[@ELPRES1DENTE45]

Those Bond villain glasses are sick.

[@painterly_porcine262]

hehehehe .... well that's at least one "Take-away".

[@flossypark3169]

He was attacked viciously with the intent of ending his life, by a member of that ‘peaceful religion’ because he dared to criticise the Quran! Salman is a legend!

[@nigelscott1922]

Such a senseless attack on an amazing human being makes me very sad for humanity.

[@patriciastaton6182]

🎉🙏🏾🎉

[@Eurydice870]

❤

[@tenkun2439]

As he narrates the story, it becomes like a knife cutting the knife.

[@CIS101]

I heard of him long ago, and his book The Satanic Versus, but I know little of him. As of 1:29 that seems sincere, sad, and real.

[@thecomprador]

Islam is a peaceful religion, they say...

[@FM-xx8ws]

Who killed all those innocent people and stabbed a baby in Bondi junction explain that

[@arafjan7488]

Radical Judaism and Zionazism is the real threat

[@arafjan7488]

Radical Judaism/Zionazism is the real threat now and Apartheid IsraHell

[@robstewart1703]

@@FM-xx8ws who invaded and bombed the middle east in illegal wars killing and maiming hundreds of thousands?

[@tubalcain1039]

Against all violence.

[@PapakShirazi]

Iran is now an ex-Muslim-majority country; Islam has Khomeini to thank for that!🥂

[@AadamSaleem390]

This video came out of nowhere

[@Humanity952]

❤ Without lust Islam is Dust 🎉

[@alexandrelougansk2412]

Religion d'amour, de tolérance et de paix !

[@Humanity952]

ExMuslim ❤

[@kiandrah8517]

I'm surprised he is still here then and now.

[@pedrolplgm]

Sos.

[@janklaas6885]

📍3:53 🫶

[@SpaceGringos3D]

The fact some videos have comments turned off shows your extreme biased 👍🏻

[@samfawlia]

🥱

[@abbasnaeemofficial9895]

The West has always supported those who are against or write against Islam. Rushdie is more successful now. There are many a great English writers in India who are living in obscurity.

[@stephenkane1074]

Islamism is well represented in the comment section. Ugly, petty, base and violent.

[@sunrisesunset6004]

Interesting how he quotes St Paul despite denying Jesus and an imortal accountable soul.

[@mariannehavisham8323]

Peter Tatchel an atheist and Gandhi a Hindu have both also cited Jesus as a source of inspiration to them

[@AbdulHalim-vu7fv]

Sorry to hear of your. Pain..blood and CREDIT CARDS.

[@Faith-May2005]

I thought this guy already died

[@itsali78692]

Mf is still alive

[@Faith-May2005]

I don't understand why they give so much value to these kinds of individuals (Ie : writers of non sense novels , autobiography , bla bla bla ...

[@josephlarrybradley508]

Because they fear him. Islam can't stand critical thinking or criticism of any sort.

[@DieterDuplak314]

@@josephlarrybradley508 mohammedan fragility

[@seanmoran2743]

Hypocrisy from this rag yet again

[@m1lfslayer225]

I thought he was vegetable

[@miqbalhundekari4802]

Dog is barking

[@BeastHive]

I didn't know dogs could type.

[@WinstonMaraj-gx8sm]

I am pumping for Salman to win the Nobel Prize before 2030. Keep writing, Salman . Do a book about someone from Afghanistan escaping from Momo Land ,coming to the West, and having a breakdown of his family and girlfriend unable to escape and have a life in the West.

[@rajsouth101]

Mohomo pedophet 72ed 1400 years ago..

[@SajidKhan-jg8bk]

Rushdie trying to project himself how "big" he is! If he would have been in a pool of blood, he wouldn't be alive to do all this jabbing!😡😡😡

[@tyronp8487]

Roses are red violets are blue aisha was 9 and muhammed 52 🤮🤢

[@robstewart1703]

🔔 🔚

[@karl4683]

Spot the muslim

[@jemalabdunasir1660]

We need a second fatwa on this traitor

[@samdavepollard]

Why? The original has never been withdrawn. Have a nice day.

[@lesleywild8706]

@jemalabdunasir1660 The fatwa obviously wasn't meant to be so let it fall on your fat head?

[@oneshothunter9877]

I can do a drawing of Muhammad. No problem.

[@S.D.323]

cope harder

[@shahzadahmed6638]

Hahahahahahah

[@martinogold]

mong

[@arafjan7488]

Looks like a Bond villain now! Poor writing I reckon would've been better to have gone gently into the long night dude. He should watch Yasir Qadhi's Seerah of the Prophet PBUH- its only the mercy of the Creator which guides someone to Islam.

[@josephlarrybradley508]

It.s only the devil that guides anyone to Islam.

[@contact594]

This is why the west doesn't need your 'values'

[@DieterDuplak314]

go dancing around black stones in a desert