Author Salman Rushdie’s attacker speaks out days after a fatal stabbing. The New Jersey man said that he was “surprised” the author had survived the attack. Attacker Hadi Matar described Rushdie as “someone who attacked Islam”. The 24-year-old attacker spilled the beans in an exclusive interview to The New York Post while being lodged in jail. The Indian-born novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed by Hadi Matar on August 12 while he was attending an event in western New York. The attacker also told The New York Post how he planned the attack. Watch this report to know more about the tell-all interview.