The British Police are investigating a threat made on social networks against the British writer JK Rowling, known for being the author of the ‘Harry Potter’ saga, after her support for the writer Salman Rushdie, stabbed on Friday in New York.
“Don’t worry, you are next», reads a message published by Rowling herself on Twitter, a text published from an account opened in Pakistan in which the person responsible for the attack on Rushdie was praised. The message had been deleted on the morning of this Sunday.
Feeling very sick right now. Let him be ok.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 12, 2022
Rowling has claimed to feel “very disgusted” for the news of the assault on Rushdie and wished him a speedy recovery. He later posted a screenshot with the threatening message. Thank you to everyone who sends me messages of support. The police are on it. She already was due to other threats », explained the author.
To all sending supportive messages: thank you ????
Police are involved (were already involved on other threats).— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 13, 2022
A Scottish police spokesman has confirmed that they have received a complaint about a threat via the Internet. “There are agents investigating”the BBC has reported.
Police have already investigated previous threats to Rowling related to her views on transgender issues.
Iran blames ‘Rushdie and his supporters’
Iran on Monday “categorically” denied any link with the aggressor who stabbed on Friday, in the United States, the British writer Salman Rushdie, author of the novel “The Satanic Verses”, against whom Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa in 1989 calling for the death.
“We categorically deny” any relationship between the aggressor and Iran, and “no one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Naser Kanani said in Tehran’s first official reaction to the attack.
“In this attack, only Rushdie and his supporters deserve to be blamed and even condemned,” Kanani stressed during his weekly news conference in Tehran. “Insulting the holy affairs of Islam and crossing the red lines of more than 1.5 billion Muslims and all followers of divine religions, Salman Rushdie exposed himself to the wrath and rage of the people,” he added.