Author JK Rowling Receives Death Threat By Iran-Backed Extremist For Condemning Attack On Rushdie

Author JK Rowling has received a death threat for a tweet condemning the attack on Salman Rushdie. Rowling, 57, took to Twitter to share screenshots of the threat message from a user. The Harry Potter author had reacted to the stabbing incident involving Rushdie with a tweet saying she felt very sick and hoped the novelist would be ok. In response, a user wrote: “Don’t worry. You are next.“ The Twitter handle, which issued the death threat, had also praised Hadi Matar, the assailant from New Jersey who stabbed Rusdhie several times during a literary event in western New York on Friday. Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator with a damaged liver and may lose an eye after he was stabbed by Hadi Matar, who apparently sympathised with Shia extremism and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. #jkrowling #deaththreats #salmanrushdie Subscribe to India Today for NEW VIDEOS EVERY DAY and make sure to enable Push Notifications so you’ll never miss a new video. All yo