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SHOCKER! Mother of the Muslim attacker who savagely tried to murder author Salman Rushdie isn’t trying to blame it on “mental issues”
Distraught mother of an Iranian terrorist sympathizer, accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie several times, says that her son returned home from a month-long trip to the Middle East as a Muslim fanatic and says he is ‘responsible for his own actions.’
Daily Mail Silvana Fardos revealed in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com that she expected her son Hadi Matar to come back from the 2018 trip ‘motivated’ (to go to school or get a job), but instead, her once outgoing and popular son returned a ‘moody introvert’ and would locked himself in the basement, refusing to speak to his family for months.
As FBI agents raided her Fairview, New Jersey home on Friday afternoon, it was the first she was learning of the frenzied stabbing of acclaimed author Rushdie. Rushdie’s life has been under threat since 1989 when the late Ayatollah Khomeini – leader of Iran‘s Islamic revolution – condemned his famous book, The Satanic Verses, as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his death.
Fardos said a number of items FBI agents seized from her son’s basement apartment – including a computer, PlayStation, books, knives and a tool to sharpen blades. ‘I received a call from my daughter. I was at work and she told me the FBI are here – I was shell shocked,’ Silvana, 46, said.
Silvana, who is Lebanese and non-religious Muslim, said she didn’t know if her son had ever read Rushdie’s book, but detected he had become more religiously fundamentalist since his trip, adding that he would criticize her for not giving him a strict Muslim upbringing.
‘I just cannot believe he was capable of doing something like this. He was very quiet, everyone loved him. As I said to the FBI I’m not going to bother talking to him again. He’s responsible for his actions. ‘I have another two children that I need to take care of. They are upset, they’re shocked. All we can do is try to move on from this, without him.’
‘To tell you the truth I never heard of his writer before. I never read any of his books, I didn’t know that such a writer even exists. I had no knowledge that my son ever read his book,’ she explained.
Matar was born in the US to Lebanese parents who emigrated from the southern border town of Yaroun, a stronghold of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah. He grew up and went to school in Cudahy, California, before his mom divorced his father Hassan Matar in 2004, her ex-husband returning to the Middle East while she moved to New Jersey for a fresh start.
It was on a trip to Lebanon in 2018 to visit his father that Hadi changed from a popular, loving son to a moody introvert, according to Silvana. ‘The first hour he gets there he called me, he wanted to come back. He stayed for approximately 28 days but the trip did not go well with his father, he felt very alone,’ she told DailyMail.com.
‘I was expecting him to come back motivated, to complete school, to get his degree and a job. But instead he locked himself in the basement. He had changed a lot, he didn’t say anything to me or his sisters for months. ‘I couldn’t tell you much about his life after that because he has isolated me since 2018. If I approach him sometimes he says hi, sometimes he just ignores me and walks away. ‘He sleeps during the day and wakes and eats during the night. He lives in the basement. He cooks his own food.’
Silvana also detected that her son was becoming more religious and he would criticize her for not giving him a strict Muslim upbringing. He also barred her from entering his basement abode which is directly under the $700,000, four-bed home where she lives with his twin sisters, aged 14.
‘One time he argued with me asking why I encouraged him to get an education instead of focusing on religion. He was angry that I did not introduce him to Islam from a young age,’ Silvana added.
‘I’m Lebanese but I’ve been here for 26 years. I’m living a simple life as a single mom, trying to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table for my kids. ‘I don’t care about politics, I’m not religious. I was born a Muslim and that’s it basically. I didn’t push my kids into religion or force anything on my son. I don’t know anyone in Iran, all my family are here.’
Matar, whose now-deleted Facebook page is plastered with pics of Iranian politicians, rushed onto the stage Friday morning at a literary festival in upstate New York as Rushdie was announced.
Matar was understood to be using a fake drivers license under the name Hassan Mughniyah when he committed the botched assassination. The current leader of Hezbollah is named Hassan Nasrallah while one of its most notorious commanders was called Imad Mughniyeh. It listed his address as an apartment in West New York, New Jersey, but the unit’s owner said she had never heard of either Matar or Mughniyeh.
Matar never had a job, never had a girlfriend but did join a local boxing gym three months ago – before abruptly cancelling his membership last week. Despite his growing zeal for Islamhe never dressed any differently, leading Silvana to hope it was just a passing phase.
The really sad thing about this shit is…they are ALL mentally ill…
How can they be anything else believing the death manual Koran?
Every time I see one, they look “haunted”…shady, evil, sly, nefarious…scrambled.
This whole episode is more proof that ‘super vetting’ Muslim immigrants means nothing. They’re offspring follow the religion and become religious and commit these terrorist attacks under the name of Islam. Everything terrible they do is directed in the instruction manual.(Koran and hadiths). Solution? Muslim ban.
Does anybody believe that this guy was raised in a secular manner in the US and after spending just 28-days in Lebanon of all places while visiting his father, he all of a sudden became an Islamic radical?
sootysmum says
Anyone who believes in Mohammed and Islam has mental health issues for doing so.
Amboyduke says
The really sad thing about this shit is…they are ALL mentally ill…
How can they be anything else believing the death manual Koran?
Every time I see one, they look “haunted”…shady, evil, sly, nefarious…scrambled.
Az gal says
She should have done everything possible to keep her son away from his father & those evil countries!
John says
This whole episode is more proof that ‘super vetting’ Muslim immigrants means nothing. They’re offspring follow the religion and become religious and commit these terrorist attacks under the name of Islam. Everything terrible they do is directed in the instruction manual.(Koran and hadiths). Solution? Muslim ban.
Rick O'HaRA says
Agree
Az gal says
Exactly.
canuckguynbgmailcom says
Maybe he can be rehabilitated with a program of enlightened methods to address his mental issues. (ha ha, just kidding, but you would know that)
Pet Charles says
Does anybody believe that this guy was raised in a secular manner in the US and after spending just 28-days in Lebanon of all places while visiting his father, he all of a sudden became an Islamic radical?
Fritz the Cat says
They are always ugly and demonic-looking.
Az gal says
Sure are.
Muslimmadness says
I actually pity her for spawning evil.
Cleavis Nowell says
Expect the worst from crescent hyena Muslims always. Those born under 6th century islam and reject it should identify as Sunworshipper/Zoroastrian !
Linda Rivera says
ASTONISHING!