James O'Brien meets Salman Rushdie | LBC
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2024
- One of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning authors Salman Rushdie has spent the last thirty years with a death threat attached to his head. A threat that almost became a reality two years ago when he brutally stabbed 15 times by a stranger. Few people have come so close to death and lived to tell the story. Salman returns to Full Disclosure to tell James about the day he almost died and the aftermath that followed.
Salman has written a deeply personal account of the brutal attack on his life. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is out now.
This episode contains sensitive topic discussions around graphic and disturbing violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Salman Rushdie is a creative genius ! He loves liberty and freedom. And it's a must for a creative mind to do their work.
More strength to you Salman, from India.
Yeah ask your cow for strength
Bless your heart.
Profound. Profound
radio guy needs to hold more eye contact imho
Really really nice interview !!!..
Wonderful interview. Thank you both.
Wow.
“A cloud never dies” Thicht nach Hahn
Dear Salman...
We'll be see it
Beautifully put.
Belive 😮 u never know❤
Flame on, Salman! 👍🤔 ( "Green Fire" UK ) 🌈🦉
Right, Sir Salman: I want THREE more of the finest novels available to humanity from your pen. I want them HERE, and I want them NOW. 🖊 📖
Do you want to talk to me? I have a totally diferrent story to tell. Near death is unique. I was shot between the eyes with a .22mm rifle. Point blank, and I'm here nearly 50 years later still talking about it. Haunts me it does.
What happened, how did you you end up in that situation and how did the outcome shape your life after?
Did you lose your nose ?
@@ITS1985 Thanks for your response. I was 16, staying in a rooming house occupied by 12 or so other tennants. Strangers one and each. This guy came in to the t.v. room waving a rifle around. I was sitting on the sofa and he pointes the rifle toward me saying, Ýou know this thing is loaded". I replied,"Well don't point ........." I had no time to finish the sentence. The bullet enterred the top right side of my nose, half an inch from my right eye. There is no exit wound, no physical or visual sign of injury. Fifty years later the bullet is lodged at the C3 level of my spine. It was the most surreal experience of my life. No pain, no fear. There was some confusion like, Where am I, What is going on. I was floating in a sea of something. Iremember bright colors of green. Then, all of a sudden I had the sensation of drowning and it felt like something or someone grabbed my ankles and threw me back, with incredible force, back to the sofa where I was before. I was drowning, I was drowning on my own blood. Blood spewed from my mouth like a burst water main. I spent 7 days in hospital and went back to work. Unbelievable. A miracle?
Believe in a place
Interesting how he is honest enough to admit his book was reconstruction based on many other accounts. Wouldn’t call it factual then- a compilation, maybe part fiction, part heresey. Lots of opinions for sure.
And people are so pathetic they put a fatwah on someone for writing a book
@@exiledone69 Fatwah? Interesting extremist view? Just shedding light between fact vs fiction and believe it should be viewed as such. And not Muslim, Catholic actually, always support truth and humanity. Too many have sufferred on both sides. Cease fire is needed.
i like james's blazer, can some ai tool find it for me
I Hate James O’Brien
Careful, James
I thought Salman Rushdi is dead
He’s a survivor
A non entity. Half way through the interview and tuned out.
Eye eye captain
Hes lost so much but still learnt nothing about lies or Lying, he’s sold out to Islamophobia and pushing is still pushing it…!?!
I think you don't know what islamophobia means.
Name one lie
Have you considered writing poetry?
Rushdie is so committed to being a troll and provocateur.
Have no empathy for anything that happens to him.
Condoning of violence? Of killing - for words?
Wrong
Rushdie is a talentless hack. He has milked his controversy.
I hope he makes an enormous cheese with said milk.
No one cares about you Rushdie made his whole career off hating ppl
I care
James is such a liberal !
Water is also wet
He has full certainty of something he is yet to experience. That is not an intelligent position to take, saying I am not sure what will happen when I die is better. I thought he was an intellectual, clearly not.
Let him have his personal certainty. You can have a word afterwards if it makes you feel better. Because when dead I really don’t think he’ll know nor care.
@@damianleah6744 Agreed.
Do you have knowledge of something else? If you do you are a fool, if you say "I don't know" you are honest. What are you?
Obviously he is not a traveler.
What do you think will happen? Is it based on science, religion, or a feeling?