Meet Khalid Kelly, a former Dublin altar boy now undergoing weapons training in Pakistan, with the dream of killing British soldiers (ye can take the boy out of Ireland...). From the Times of London:
Kelly now sees his time in the West as mental preparation for jihad, claiming he spent a lot of time on the internet learning how to make bombs. He left the UK in 2008 after some friends were arrested for extremist behaviour during a protest about the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.After a period underground, Kelly has now re-emerged in Pakistan's Swat valley, where the army recently drove out the Taliban in a three-month military operation. He travels frequently to Rawalpindi, a garrison city next to the nation's capital Islamabad, to meet contacts and spread his radical jihadist message.
In a meeting in one of the city's parks last month he told The Sunday Times that he had a "divine calling" to kill. "I would feel good because you are killing for God. I have practised enough mentally to know that when my time comes I'll be ready. I pray every night for bravery," he said.
Kelly said he moved to Pakistan to join the "best of the best" in the jihadist struggle and to work towards replacing the civilian government with an Islamic one. As Islamabad vows to take on Islamic militants, Kelly harbours a dark hope that Pakistan will become like Iraq with "beheadings and kidnappings".
His face brightens at the mention of suicide bombings and shootings that have devastated hundreds of Pakistani families since the army launched its recent offensive against Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in the tribal belt of Waziristan.
He is also unapologetic about his desire to fund, encourage and take part in terrorism. "I always believe Islam is terrorism. We are told to terrorise the enemies of Islam," he said. "The world will become a dangerous place. Everybody had better start embracing Islam or people will start flying planes into buildings again."
May Khalid Kelly gets his wish to face British troops one day soon. And may the Queen's soldiers' aim be true. If he won't turn from this murderous fanaticism -- he even tells the interviewer that he hopes his young son dies in jihad -- this bloke needs killin'.
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this bloke needs killin'.
Good simple commonsense. Why, Rod, it becomes you.
**this bloke needs killin'**
(in your best Dublin accent)...da'fella needs the Shi'ite beaten out of him!
Crass, but couldn't resist. We've had him on the radio a few times here in Ireland, and I can assure you all that he is a certifiable snarling nut.
On one memorable interview, a journalist called Kevin Myers - known for being a contrarian troublemaker - got Kelly so riled up that completely lost the rag, shrieked at the presenter and slammed down the phone.
Myers, being fairly volatile himself, responded in like fashion, leaving the poor presenter completely speechless - I'd never known radio silence to be so hilarious.
PólÓC that was a nice pun, but if Kelly the Boy from Kabul is with al Qaeda, he's as ready to kill Shi'ites as he is Americans. Osama is a Sunni Muslim, like the whole Saudi ruling elite. Think apostate, infidel, traitor, all those words that thugs invoke when they want to commit mass murder.
Right you are Ms Jenkins.....now step away from the clipboard! :-)
In case anyone's wondering where the pun comes from (and do forgive the profanity, it's purely illustrative), 's...h...i...t...e' (rhyming with 'right') is a common Irish version of the more well-known word for excrement, and is used in all the same ways - particularly in Dublin.
To avoid such awful language escaping one's otherwise sainted lips during moments of great stress, one could cry 'sugar!' or the Irish 'siúcra!' instead, leaving one a handy cover for having let slip the initial 'sh-' of the more offensive word. It's particularly useful in more polite company, or for parents in the company of children - and was a favourite of my mother.
Since the dawn of the War on Terror era, as words like Sunni and Shi'ite became more familiar, it wouldn't be strange to hear a new euphemism: a pained cry of "AH, SH- SHI'ITE MUSLIM'!
Though, of course, one risks a whole new category of faux-pas with that one.
;-)
Yeah, I think we all knew that. If you feel you have to EXPLAIN the joke so many times, maybe it wasn't as funny as it looked. By the way, if you would study the Brythonic as well as Gaelic branches of Celtic language, you wouldn't get gender roles mixed up. Thank God you're not my type anyway.
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