The mother of this Lebanese-American, Hadi Matar, an Iranian sympathizer accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie last Friday in New York, said that her “son who was born and raised in America” one month… Silvana Ferdous, of Lebanese origin, An extended trip to the Middle East in 2018, and the introverted, religious fanatic returned, locking himself downstairs and refusing to speak to his family for months, he explained to Britain’s Mail Daily.
Silvana Ferdows, 46, said she learned of Salman Rushdie’s stabbing when FBI agents raided her home and removed the computer from the basement, where her son lives in Fairview, New Jersey. brought I was at work with my Playstation, books, knives and a sharpener when my daughter called me and told me that the FBI agents were at the house and I was shocked by the news. She did not know if her son had read Rushdie’s book or not, but she noticed that he had become more religious since his visit to the country, so she criticized him for not having a thorough Islamic upbringing.
The mother said that she had never heard of Salman Rushdie and had not read any of his books, saying: I didn’t even know that he existed and I didn’t know that my son had read his book (..) I can “Believe me he could have done something like that, he was very calm, everyone loved him and as I told the FBI, I don’t want to talk to him anymore. He is responsible for his actions, I have two other minors. “I do. I have to be careful and they’re angry and I’m shocked. All we can do is get through this without him.” The previous report indicated that he was born to Lebanese parents who immigrated from the city of “Yaroun” in southern Lebanon.
Hadi Matar grew up and attended school in California before her mother’s divorce separated her from her father Hassan in 2004, after which her estranged husband returned to Lebanon, while she moved to New Jersey to start a new life. start with his children. As for his trip to Lebanon in 2018, it was to visit his father, because he had turned from a popular and loving boy into an introvert “and he called me in the first hour of his return. He wanted after 28 Day will return. Absence, because the trip with his father was not going well, because he felt very lonely.”
The mother added: “I expected him to come back excitedly and finish his studies to get his degree and his job, but instead he locked himself in the basement, he has changed a lot and he hasn’t told me or anything.” His two sisters sleep during the day and wake up at night to eat. He lives in the basement where he cooks himself.
Over time, Hadi Matar barred his mother from entering his basement residence, which sits directly below the four-bedroom, $700,000 home where the mother lives with her twin sisters, both 14 years old. She had an argument with me once and asked me why I encouraged her to study instead of focusing on religion. She was angry because I didn’t introduce her to Islam since she was a child.” 26 years old and living a simple life as a single mother. Then he says: “I don’t care about politics. I’m not religious. I was born a Muslim and that’s basically it. I did not push my children towards it. Debt or force my son to do anything. I don’t know anyone in Iran, all my family is here.”
Source: Lebanon Debate
