JK Rowling has received a chilling ‘you’re next’ death warning after posting support for Sir Salman Rushdie.
Rushdie, 75, suffered horrific injuries when he was stabbed up to 15 times in front of a horrified crowd at New York’s Chautauqua Institution.
Ms Rowling is now working with the police after receiving a potential threat from a Twitter user, The sun reports
The Harry Potter The author, 57, shared screenshots on Twitter of a message from a user who had written “don’t worry, you’re next” in response to her tweet that she was feeling “really sick” after ‘heard the news and hoped that the novelist “would be fine”. “.
Rowling tagged the support Twitter account in the post and said, “Any chance of getting support?”
She later updated her followers on the situation, saying: “To everyone sending messages of support – thank you. The police are involved (they were already involved in other threats).
Rowling is one of the authors and notable faces who have expressed their disbelief after Sir Salman was stabbed on stage in New York state.
The Indian-born British author, 75, whose writing prompted death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was due to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua institution when the incident occurred , leaving him with an apparent stab wound to the neck.
He is on a respirator and may lose an eye and has nerve damage in his arm and liver, according to his agent.
On Friday, New York State Police named the alleged assailant as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, who was arrested after the incident.
Since the suspect was identified, people on social media have speculated whether the attack was linked to Iran’s former leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who had previously issued a fatwa calling for his death.
The call was made after the publication of his book The satanic verseswhich has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it blasphemous.
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