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Khalid Kelly, born Terence Edward Kelly, is an Irish Muslim convert, and former leader of Al-Mujaharoun in Ireland.

Kelly by profession is an Irish nurse whom, like Yvonne Ridley, converted to Islam, in 2000^[1] after being imprisoned in an Islamic country.

He has a daughter who lives with her non-Muslim mother.^[2] and a son named Osama from his marriage to a Pakistani Muslim.^[3]

Background

Born Terence Edward Kelly in south Dublin, he attended Catholic school there until age 15, when he left to work in pubs.

At 23, he moved to London to train as an intensive care nurse^[4] and in 1996 took a job in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at the King Faisal hospital, attracted by the tax-free salary, living their for 4 1/2 years.^[5] He lived for 3 1/2 years in "downtown in a Saudi villa, not in one of the Western compounds. When I’d hear the call to prayer, I’d open the window and turn up the stereo in opposition to what I saw as an imposition."^[6]

Although Kelly went to work in Saudi Arabia because the salary was tax free he soon found bigger money in making alcohol, which is a strictly forbidden activity in that country.

Kelly was subsequently caught and sent to jail in 2000, where an Afghan introduced him to Islam. Khalid Kelly, as he is now known, left prison a convert. Kelly recalls:

"I got really good at making drink. I had three stills in my house and then I got arrested one day with five cases of Johnny Walker in the back of my car. I was sent to prison for eight months. I lost everything. It was all confiscated. The prison was 150 people in a dormitory with a mosque at the end. I’d been inside for four weeks and was at my lowest point when I was given the Koran in English. Someone explained it to me. And then it was very quick. I saw that God was the creator, the provider, the commander, and the legislator for mankind. It was all suddenly very clear. I felt freer than I had ever been - even though I was in prison."^[7]

Kelly has also said of this event:

"It just filled in all the gaps, you know? It was like the answer to everything I'd every wondered about. There was even a Captain Ali there at the prison, and he gave me a Koran. And I'll always remember it because he wrapped it in a piece of newspaper, you know, because he didn't have any wrapping paper. And he was so happy for me. He was nearly crying, the man." He said, "'I'm so happy you've come to the truth. It will change your life.' And indeed it did," Kelly says.^[8]

Describing his journey from skepticism to belief, or as he called it “from darkness to light,” Kelly said, “the journey started with the illegal production of alcoholic drinks in Saudi Arabia whilst I was working as a nurse at the King Faisal hospital.” He went on to say: “Before Islam, I didn’t know the meaning of love. I used to be like other British young men, drinking and going out, but when I read the Quran in 2000, whilst in jail, I felt a huge surge of compassion and sympathy. I feel now that what led me to Islam was God’s mercy and sympathy. It’s something bigger than myself and I can’t explain it with words.”^[9]

In 2002 Kelly was deported to Britain and allegedly soon began attending sermons by the radical preacher Omar Mohammad Bakri.^[10]

Upon his return to Britain Kelly got a job working as a nurse at St Thomas’s Hospital. However, rumours started that he was a supporter of the Taliban and subsequently lost his job.^[11]^[12]

He became a member of the now disbanded hardline Islamic organisation Al-Mujaharoun (the leader in Ireland)^[13] and now describes himself as an independent Muslim preacher.

Kelly was a member of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah, a British Islamist organization and a close associate of Sulayman Keeler, Abu Izzadeen. Omar Bakri Muhammed and Abu Hamza al-Masri, Abu Uzair and Anjem Choudary. He was also a member of Al Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2003 Kelly appreaed on The Late Late Show on RTE One with Pat Kenny, alongside Anjem Choudary.^[14]

Declared fugitive in 2008

In March 2008 it was reported that Khalid Kelly is on the run. After the Danish cartoon controversy and subsequent arrests for having signs which said 'Kill those who insult the Prophet', Kelly fled the country and has been traveling the Muslim world looking for a place to bring his wife and two sons, Osama (named after the Qaeda leader) and the newborn Muhammed.^[15]

External links

Video

Khalid Kelly - Irish TV - In October 2003 on The Late Late Show on RTE One with Pat Kenny, alongside Anjem Choudary.

[1] ttp://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062

[2] Preaching from the converted,The Independent, UK May 16, 2004

[3] ttp://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062

[4] Preaching from the converted,The Independent, UK May 16, 2004

[5] Preaching from the converted,The Independent, UK May 16, 2004

[6] Preaching from the converted,The Independent, UK May 16, 2004

[7] Preaching from the converted,The Independent, UK May 16, 2004

[8] ttp://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/09/6527882e-6393-487c-92e5-71a08336af59.html

[9] ttp://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062

[10] Preaching from the converted,The Independent, UK May 16, 2004

[11] Preaching from the converted,The Independent, UK May 16, 2004

[12] ttp://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062

[13] ttp://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062

[14] ttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2998048752087753250

[15] ttp://silverback.gnn.tv/blogs/27720/Looking_for_Osama

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+'''Khalid Kelly''', born '''Terence Edward Kelly''', is an [[Irish]] [[Muslim]] convert, and former leader of [[Al-Mujaharoun]] in [[Ireland]].
-==Background==
-Born Terence Edward Kelly in south [[Dublin]], he attended [[Catholic]] school there until age 15, when he left to work in pubs. At 23, he moved to [[London]] to train as an intensive care nurse and in [[1996]] took a job in [[Saudi Arabia]], attracted by the tax-free salary.
-Some years ago he went to work in Saudi Arabia because the salary was tax free. However, he soon found bigger money in making [[alcohol]] -- a strictly forbidden activity in the country.
-He was caught and sent to jail, where an Afghan introduced him to Islam. Khalid Kelly, as he is now known, left prison a convert.
-Kelly has said of this event: ''"It just filled in all the gaps, you know? It was like the answer to everything I'd every wondered about. There was even a Captain Ali there at the prison, and he gave me a Koran. And I'll always remember it because he wrapped it in a piece of newspaper, you know, because he didn't have any wrapping paper. And he was so happy for me. He was nearly crying, the man."'' He said, ''"'I'm so happy you've come to the truth. It will change your life.' And indeed it did,"'' Kelly says.
-==Controversy==
-In [[2003]] Kelly was deported to London and allegedly soon began attending sermons by the radical preacher Omar Mohammad Bakri.
-He was a member of the now disbanded hardline Islamic organisation Al-Mujaharoun (the leader in Ireland)<ref>http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062</ref> and now describes himself as an independent Muslim preacher.
+Kelly by profession is an Irish nurse whom, like [[Yvonne Ridley]], [[Religious_conversion#Conversion_to_Islam|converted to Islam]], in [[2000]]<ref>http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062</ref> after being imprisoned in an Islamic country.
+He has a daughter who lives with her non-Muslim mother.<ref>[http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7283 Preaching from the converted],The Independent, UK
-"The ultimate goal of every Muslim is to establish Sharia law over the whole Earth," he says. "It is a superior way of life and every Muslim living in the UK has an obligation to call for Sharia law to be implemented.
+May 16, 2004</ref> and a son named Osama from his marriage to a Pakistani Muslim.<ref>http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062</ref>
+==Background==
-"We believe in jihad, which literally means to struggle. It is not allowed for a Muslim to obey a man-made system of laws that is prone to errors.
+Born Terence Edward Kelly in south [[Dublin]], he attended [[Catholic]] school there until age 15, when he left to work in pubs.
+At 23, he moved to [[London]] to train as an intensive care nurse<ref>[http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7283 Preaching from the converted],The Independent, UK
-"Sharia law is a perfect system of divine law and order that the whole world should live under.
+May 16, 2004</ref> and in [[1996]] took a job in [[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]], at the [[King Faisal]] hospital, attracted by the tax-free salary, living their for 4 1/2 years.<ref>[http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7283 Preaching from the converted],The Independent, UK
+May 16, 2004</ref> He lived for 3 1/2 years in ''"downtown in a Saudi villa, not in one of the Western compounds. When I’d hear the call to prayer, I’d open the window and turn up the stereo in opposition to what I saw as an imposition."''<ref>[http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7283 Preaching from the converted],The Independent, UK
+May 16, 2004</ref>
+Although Kelly went to work in Saudi Arabia because the salary was tax free he soon found bigger money in making [[alcohol]], which is a strictly forbidden activity in that country.
+Kelly was subsequently caught and sent to jail in [[2000]], where an Afghan introduced him to Islam. Khalid Kelly, as he is now known, left prison a convert. Kelly recalls:
+''"I got really good at making drink. I had three stills in my house and then I got arrested one day with five cases of Johnny Walker in the back of my car. I was sent to prison for eight months. I lost everything. It was all confiscated. The prison was 150 people in a dormitory with a mosque at the end. I’d been inside for four weeks and was at my lowest point when I was given the Koran in English. Someone explained it to me. And then it was very quick. I saw that God was the creator, the provider, the commander, and the legislator for mankind. It was all suddenly very clear. I felt freer than I had ever been - even though I was in prison."''<ref>[http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7283 Preaching from the converted],The Independent, UK
-"Everything you have in the West is wrong. We should be in charge over you. If Sharia law prevailed, it would change everything.
+May 16, 2004</ref>
+Kelly has also said of this event:
+''"It just filled in all the gaps, you know? It was like the answer to everything I'd every wondered about. There was even a Captain Ali there at the prison, and he gave me a Koran. And I'll always remember it because he wrapped it in a piece of newspaper, you know, because he didn't have any wrapping paper. And he was so happy for me. He was nearly crying, the man."'' He said, ''"'I'm so happy you've come to the truth. It will change your life.' And indeed it did,"'' Kelly says.<ref>http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/09/6527882e-6393-487c-92e5-71a08336af59.html</ref>
-"Alcohol would be outlawed and it would be illegal for any woman to leave the house unless she had her whole body and head covered. Everything would change for the better - it is sadly and badly needed."
+Describing his journey from skepticism to belief, or as he called it ''“from darkness to light,”'' Kelly said, ''“the journey started with the illegal production of alcoholic drinks in Saudi Arabia whilst I was working as a nurse at the King Faisal hospital.”'' He went on to say: ''“Before Islam, I didn’t know the meaning of love. I used to be like other British young men, drinking and going out, but when I read the Quran in 2000, whilst in jail, I felt a huge surge of compassion and sympathy. I feel now that what led me to Islam was God’s mercy and sympathy. It’s something bigger than myself and I can’t explain it with words.”''<ref>http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062</ref>
-Kelly holds in high esteem the men who carried out the 7/7 bombings in London. "The martyrs who carried out the bombings on July 7 were praiseworthy and correct.
+In [[2002]] Kelly was deported to Britain and allegedly soon began attending sermons by the radical preacher Omar Mohammad Bakri.<ref>[http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7283 Preaching from the converted],The Independent, UK
-"We have to spread Sharia law and put fear into the head of the enemy." <REF>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=433462&in_page_id=1770</REF>
+May 16, 2004</ref>
+Upon his return to Britain Kelly got a job working as a nurse at [[St Thomas’s Hospital]]. However, rumours started that he was a supporter of the Taliban and subsequently lost his job.<ref>[http://www.religionnewsblog.com/7283 Preaching from the converted],The Independent, UK
-He is a member of [[Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah]], a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Islamist]] organization and a close associate of [[Sulayman Keeler]], [[Abu Izzadeen]]. [[Omar Bakri Muhammed]] and [[Abu Hamza al-Masri]], [[Abu Uzair]] and [[Anjem Choudary]].
+May 16, 2004</ref><ref>http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062</ref>
+He became a member of the now disbanded hardline Islamic organisation Al-Mujaharoun (the leader in Ireland)<ref>http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062</ref> and now describes himself as an independent Muslim preacher.
-he told Asharq Al Awsat how he lost his job at one of London’s major hospitals, St Thomas', after rumors were circulated about him being “the Taliban nurse”.
+Kelly was a member of [[Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah]], a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Islamist]] organization and a close associate of [[Sulayman Keeler]], [[Abu Izzadeen]]. [[Omar Bakri Muhammed]] and [[Abu Hamza al-Masri]], [[Abu Uzair]] and [[Anjem Choudary]]. He was also a member of [[Al Ghurabaa]] and [[The Saved Sect]].{{fact}}
-He also said he was still in touch with his sheikh and former teacher, Omar Bakri Mohammed, the firebrand preacher who left London for Beirut, following the July 7 attacks on the subway system.
+In [[October]] [[2003]] Kelly appreaed on [[The Late Late Show]] on [[RTE One]] with [[Pat Kenny]], alongside [[Anjem Choudary]].<ref>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2998048752087753250</ref>
-Describing his journey from skepticism to belief, or as he called it “from darkness to light,” Kelly said, “the journey started with the illegal production of alcoholic drinks in Saudi Arabia whilst I was working as a nurse at the King Faisal hospital.” He converted to Islam whilst in jail in Riyadh.
+==Declared fugitive in 2008==
-Speaking to Asharq Al Awsat, he said he used to hate Islam and especially the sound of the call to prayer. Nowadays, after his life changed radically, he prays at an east London mosque and enjoys spending time with his five-month old son Osama, from his marriage to a Pakistani Muslim.
+In [[March 2008]] it was reported that Khalid Kelly is on the run. After the Danish cartoon controversy and subsequent arrests for having signs which said 'Kill those who insult the Prophet', Kelly fled the country and has been traveling the Muslim world looking for a place to bring his wife and two sons, Osama (named after the Qaeda leader) and the newborn Muhammed.<ref>http://silverback.gnn.tv/blogs/27720/Looking_for_Osama</ref>
-“Before Islam, I didn’t know the meaning of love. I used to be like other British young men, drinking and going out, but when I read the Quran in 2000, whilst in jail, I felt a huge surge of compassion and sympathy. I feel now that what led me to Islam was God’s mercy and sympathy. It’s something bigger than myself and I can’t explain it with words.”
 ==See also==
+* [[Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt]]
+* [[Abu Izzadeen]]
-==External links==
+* [[Anjem Choudary]]
-*[http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/24/MNGN67SF4U1.DTL Militant Muslims find a haven in Londonistan]
+* [[Abu Uzair]]
-*[http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/09/6527882e-6393-487c-92e5-71a08336af59.html Radical Believes Suicide Bombers Acted With Right Intentions]
+* [[Hassan Butt]]
-*[http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062 Muslim Converts: Why Do They Choose Extremism?]
+* [[Andrew Ibrahim]]
+* [[Sulayman Keeler]]
-{{Ireland-bio-stub}}
+* [[Abu Hamza al-Masri]]
+===References===
+{{Reflist}}
+ <!--so this page isn't in article categories - remove this line when moved to article space
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+==External links==
+*[http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/24/MNGN67SF4U1.DTL Militant Muslims find a haven in Londonistan]
+*[http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/09/6527882e-6393-487c-92e5-71a08336af59.html Radical Believes Suicide Bombers Acted With Right Intentions]
+*[http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=6062 Muslim Converts: Why Do They Choose Extremism?]
+*[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/24/MNGN67SF4U1.DTL Militant Muslims find a haven in 'Londonistan']
+*[http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/Shocker_Archbishop_Backs_Sharia_in_UK9500.shtml Shocker Archbishop Backs Sharia in UK - WILL BRITAIN GO MUSLIM?]
+*[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-433462/Disaffected-raging-hungry-harsh-finality-Sharia-law.html Disaffected, raging, and hungry for the harsh finality of Sharia law]
+*[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/06/acd.01.html]
+*[http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/bin-laden-gets-his-first-92835.html Evening Herald] - 7 October 2003
+*[http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/extreme-muslims-open-dublin-office-94096.html Evening Herald] - 14 October 2003
+===Video===
+* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2998048752087753250&q=Khalid+Kelly+&ei=oY89SJjWBIaCiwLKg9HqAw Khalid Kelly - Irish TV] - In October 2003 on The Late Late Show on RTE One with Pat Kenny, alongside Anjem Choudary.