<!-- wp:html --><p>Chautauqua County Jail/Handout via Reuters</p>
<p>The mother of the man accused of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/salman-rushdie-stabbed-on-stage-during-event-at-chautauqua-institution-in-new-york">leaping onstage</a> to attack author Salman Rushdie condemned her son on Sunday, saying he was responsible for his own actions and that his family would be moving on “without him.”</p>
<p>Born Muslim in Lebanon, Silvana Fardos has been in the U.S. for more than 25 years, she told the <em><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11110905/Mother-alleged-Salman-Rushdie-attacker-says-son-responsible-actions.html">Daily Mail</a>.</em> She’d never heard of Salman Rushdie before getting a frantic phone call from her daughter on Friday, she said.</p>
<p>“I never read any of his books,” the 46-year-old told the paper. “I didn’t know that such a writer even exists. I had no knowledge that my son ever read his book.”</p>
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Chautauqua County Jail/Handout via Reuters
The mother of the man accused of leaping onstage to attack author Salman Rushdie condemned her son on Sunday, saying he was responsible for his own actions and that his family would be moving on “without him.”
Born Muslim in Lebanon, Silvana Fardos has been in the U.S. for more than 25 years, she told the Daily Mail. She’d never heard of Salman Rushdie before getting a frantic phone call from her daughter on Friday, she said.
“I never read any of his books,” the 46-year-old told the paper. “I didn’t know that such a writer even exists. I had no knowledge that my son ever read his book.”
