Hadi Matar could have gone anywhere,
have done anything
What he fancied himself to be
Is anybody’s guess, but he had been
The perfect nightmare in a fancy-free
Morning, where the mother of
Midnight’s Children had been
A fancied presence!
A voice that had untiringly upheld
What he held close to his heart,
A dissident voice in this
Conformist world…
Hadi Mater, we are ashamed of you
I don’t know what your religion is,
Neither I want to know… .
• The link to the CNN story on attack on Rushdie:
