Writer Salman RushdieMOSCOW, Aug 14Salman Rushdie, who attacked the British writer, should be considered a criminal and tried according to the law, but it is important not to forget that there are shrines that cannot be touched, Elena Drapeko, the first deputy head of the Russian State Duma Committee on Culture, told RIA Novosti. British writer Salman Rushdie, who was attacked in New York, taken off a ventilator and able to talk, the Associated Press reported, citing his agent, Andrew Wylie.Sunak, against the backdrop of the attack on Rushdie, called for recognizing the IRGC as terrorists «The one who tried to kill, of course, he is a criminal and should be tried according to human laws. Rushdie has his share of responsibility. If you turn to the people who believe in something, and people curse you for this, then you don’t need to be offended, so to speak — you need to understand that there are shrines that cannot be touched,” she said. As Drapeko noted, in the ideological plane, the struggle is permissible. At the same time, as the parliamentarian believes, «terrible things often rise to the banner of a good idea.» On Friday, August 12, the writer Rushdie was attacked on the stage of the institute before speaking in New York State. Police said Rushdie received at least two stab wounds, in the neck and stomach. The attacker was detained, this is 24-year-old Hadi Matar from New Jersey. NBC News reported, citing a source, that Matar, according to preliminary data, sympathized with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Rushdie's novel «The Satanic Verses» (1988) caused outrage in the Muslim world because it was considered anti-Islamic. Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini publicly cursed Rushdie in his fatwa and sentenced him to death. For a long time the writer was forced to hide, his book was banned in a number of countries. 
Rushdie attacker taken into custody without bail
