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UK: Convert to Islam arrested for fundraising for the Islamic State

Oct 25, 2015 6:27 pm By Robert Spencer

Same old questions: who taught Adam Locksley Islam? Where is that person now, and did he teach others? Why does this entity, the Islamic State, that all Western authorities assure us has nothing to do with Islam, continue to prove so attractive to Muslims worldwide? And why aren’t Western leaders asking questions such as these?

Adam Locksley

“White British Muslim is arrested for ‘collecting jihadi cash’ in MoS sting: Suspected ISIS fundraiser questioned by anti-terror squad detectives,” by Omar Wahid, The Mail On Sunday, October 24, 2015:

A suspected fundraiser for barbaric terror group Islamic State was dramatically arrested yesterday following a Mail on Sunday investigation into a sinister network operating in Britain.

British plumber Adam Locksley was being questioned by anti-terror squad detectives last night as officers from Scotland Yard’s SO15 unit searched the 28-year-old’s North London home.

The arrest came after this newspaper handed police evidence from a three-week undercover operation that reveals how notorious British fanatic Omar Hussain, known as the Supermarket Jihadi, organises cash collections from IS sympathisers in the UK from his hideout in Syria.

Our expose also reveals how:

Young supporters of the terror group are told to steal from non-Muslims to raise cash for jihadis;
Money is being funnelled to Syria via Western Union and Moneygram cash transfer systems to buy weapons, clothes and equipment for IS fighters;
The terrorists even arrange couriers to collect money from donors in person, but use elaborate plots to avoid detection;
The network communicates via a highly-encrypted messaging app called Kik, under the noses of police and security services.

The fundraising cell was infiltrated after a reporter posed as a would-be donor offering to give money to jihadis in Syria.

The reporter contacted Hussain in Syria on Kik and was immediately encouraged to donate money.

A series of exchanges then took place between the reporter and associates of Hussain in Syria and Britain, and a cash drop was arranged. The dramatic sting unfolded when an IS middleman then sent Locksley to pick up £1,000 cash hidden in a package among bags of sand outside a builders’ warehouse in North London.

The reporter did not leave any money inside the package as this would have been against the law.

The package merely contained an A-Z map book of London.

During the carefully planned operation, which involved expert security staff, Locksley picked up the package while appearing to receive instructions on a mobile phone, and was secretly photographed.

It is not known whether Locksley knew there was ‘money’ inside the package, which was allegedly intended to be sent to IS to buy weapons in Syria.

We later handed our evidence to police who, within 12 hours, arrested Locksley. Last night, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ‘Detectives from the Counter Terrorism Command [SO15] have arrested a man on suspicion of terrorist fundraising.

‘The 28-year-old man was arrested on Saturday afternoon, October 24, near to his home address in North London on suspicion of terrorist fundraising, contrary to Section 15 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The arrest was made under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and he was taken into custody at a North London police station where he remains at this time. A search of his address is ongoing.’

Shortly after Locksley’s arrest, four detectives arrived at his flat in Hendon to search the property. After four hours the officers led away two women wearing headscarves from the property. Neighbours said Locksley was a polite and quiet man, who lived with a young Middle Eastern-looking woman, believed to be his wife.

Locksley’s landlord and neighbours said he was a white British convert to Islam. It was not clear when he adopted the religion.

He was said to have an English father and an Irish mother, and to speak with a London accent. Another neighbour said that recently she had nearly called the police as she became suspicious of people going in and out of the flat.

The neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: ‘I always hear people coming and going at all hours.’

Our investigation began after our reporter obtained a Kik address for the Supermarket Jihadi through a blog page he ran on the blogging site, Tumblr.

Hussain is infamous for giving out advice to would-be jihadis on how to get to Syria from Europe without getting caught.

The page has since been taken down by Tumblr.

After the reporter contacted Hussain on Kik, Hussain sent a long group message saying how IS was desperate for money. He wrote: ‘To those who love the Islamic State and wish to assist in its expansion, we are in dire need of financial support for the sake of Allah. Alhamdulillah [praise be to God] we are currently working on a few projects for which we require financial aid.’

In the same message, Hussain gave the name and Kik address of an American jihadi in IS-controlled Syria, called Abu Issa Amriki, as the person to contact if anyone wanted to donate money.

When the reporter contacted Amriki on Kik, he was asked to donate as soon as he could. Amriki encouraged the reporter to donate as much as 1,000 dollars or euros.

Amriki told him that he could raise the money through charity or by ‘stealing’ from non-Muslims. Amriki said: ‘Stealing from kuffar [non-believers] for mujahideen [jihad fighters] is halal [lawful].’

When asked what the money was going to be used for, Amriki replied: ‘Medicine, drones, night vision, thermals, range finders, sniper scopes, weapons, clothes for brothers, daily expenses for mujahideen… any families of the shaheed [dead jihadis].’ He asked the reporter to send the money by Moneygram transfer to an IS agent in Bosnia….

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  1. Angemon says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 7:15 pm

    After the reporter contacted Hussain on Kik, Hussain sent a long group message saying how IS was desperate for money.

    What, they ran out of Jews and Christians to extract jiziyah from? I heard the caliph has a really nice watch. Aren’t there pawn shops in the islamic state?

  2. Jay Boo says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    The ISIS has nothing to do with Islam meme continues.

    Yet tonight Bill Whitaker news correspondent for the CBS news program 60 minutes tells us about Burma.
    Any jihad watcher knows where this story is going.
    Muslims in Burma harassed in Burma with — SURPRISE no mention of Muslims instigating or attacking Buddhists.
    Suggestions that Buddhists are attacking at suggestion of Buddhist leaders and connection to Buddhist ideology.

    — CBS followed this by ‘Madame Secretary’ (Hillary) indoctrination.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Oct 26, 2015 at 7:21 am

      60 Minutes is a straight ahead propaganda show with its reports reliably built to fit neatly within the globo-socialist framework, good production values though. The non-mention of the *fact* of Moslem incitement of the cycle of violence in Burma is straight out of the now old reporting playbook from India, where Moslems torch one or two Hindu temples, then the Hindus get fed up and burn down a mosque, whereupon the global media shows up and reports that it’s all a big misunderstanding on both sides, except for the times when the affair is presented as an example of the religious bigotry inherent in Hinduism, the reporters are of course ignorant of the Avesta and cannot therefore cite the violent scriptures in it — there aren’t some violent mantras in the Vedas, but nothing comparable to the programmatic direct commands of world takeover violence throughout the Holy Ko-Ran.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 26, 2015 at 7:22 am

        Meant to type that there *are* some violent mantras.

  3. jayell says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 11:11 pm

    There’s been an old saying going around the UK for centuries about allowing rotten apples to get into the barrel – eventually they start infecting the rest. This is a good example.

  4. mortimer says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 1:23 am

    Robert Spencer wrote: “why aren’t Western leaders asking questions” (about the doctrinal basis of jihad)?

    They aren’t asking about jihad because it contradicts their pet theory that Islam is REALLY a Marxist LIBERATION MOVEMENT!

    They would be forced to re-evaluate their loony Marxist Utopian ideas that have been refuted by history.

    • Marty says

      Oct 26, 2015 at 6:14 am

      Nice comment.
      Elaborating it further, mohammedans are overwhelmingly non white & so that helps
      in their lies about muslim victimhood & the non existent ailment of islamophobia.
      If muslims were overwhelmingly white Americans they would be seen as related
      to but worse than the Ku Klaz Klan. Even the uniforms relate.
      In that case islam would be banned in the UK, like the KKK, and all its hate spewing
      mosques & schools (many taxpayer funded) closed down.
      Racism is at the core of many Marxist ideas.
      Notably the inferiority of whites & the victimhood of all non whites.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 26, 2015 at 7:13 am

        The magic is in its having the reserve status of a religion, which is regarded as unassailable almost everywhere, even de facto in communist dictatorships.

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 7:00 am

    It’s what Fitzgerald said, the more recent the convert the more he’s on the scriptures of Islam, which because of their world takeover predatory nature leads to violent Jihad activities much more often than with a born Moslem, especially the cultural Moslem. But somehow the media leaves you with the idea that the recent convert is only somehow more likely to fall in with the wrong crowd, the tiny minority of extremist hijackers.

  6. Laura says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 7:42 am

    I’m sure his mother must feel very proud of this treacherous specimen?

  7. steve says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    Great news. This is about outdoing the inbred sociopaths and stopping them by outdoing what they do. If it takes overwhelming security measures i am more than willing to sacrifice some privacy to stop the maniacs. The knee-jerkers will cry about giving up some privacy but the alternative is to see the terrorist get away with their sabotage and violence.

  8. c matt says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 12:42 pm

    Fundraising for the Islamic State? He was arrested for competing with the fundraising efforts of the US and Saudi Arabia?

  9. dumbledoresarmy says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 5:41 am

    Various observations.

    First of all, and most worrying, the byline on this Daily Mail story – “Omar Wahid”.

    Now, unless he is an *apostate* (whether declared or, for safety reasons/ ease of infiltration, closet), he cannot be trusted 100 percent. What is the Mail doing, hiring a Muslim reporter?

    al wala -wa-al-baraa, Loyalty and Enmity.

    Further observation: one would like to know when and where Adam Locksley (what is his special Muslim name?) converted. WHO dawa-ised him? WHO witnessed his shahada?

    He is married to a Muslimah.

    From the article –
    “Shortly after Locksley’s arrest, four detectives arrived at his flat in Hendon to search the property. After four hours the officers led away two women wearing headscarves from the property. Neighbours said Locksley was a polite and quiet man, who lived with a young Middle Eastern-looking woman, believed to be his wife.”

    But *two* women wearing headscarves – that is, the Islamic slave rag – were taken away from his premises. Two wives?

    Question: did he convert in order to be able to marry a luscious Muslimah (because, as we know, Muslim females are strictly forbidden, by the sharia of Islam, to marry any man who is not a Muslim) or did he convert first (with no ‘honeypot’ hormonal incentive) and then get fixed up with a Muslim female later on?

    And: what mosque or mosques does he attend? If known, has it been raided and surprise-searched? For if it hasn’t, it ought to have been.

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