UK: Muslim plumber who refuses to serve ‘Zionists’ once ‘inadvertently’ tried to collect money for ISIS

Is it possible that Omar Abdullah Bal disapproves of the Islamic State (ISIS) and didn’t know that his brother was collecting money for it? Yes. Another possibility is that this is a case of “War is deceit.” (Bukhari 4.52.268).

“What happened when the JC dropped in on the plumber who won’t serve ‘Zionists,’” by Felix Pope, The Jewish Chronicle, July 12, 2024:

A London plumber who refused to serve “Zionists” claims he was unwittingly involved in an Isis terror plot which saw his brother imprisoned and believes it is “legitimate” for Israeli soldiers to be killed, the JC can reveal.

Adam Loxley, 37, who emerged sporting a long beard and an Islamic robe when tracked down by this newspaper to an address in Walthamstow, was arrested in 2015 after he was sent by an Islamic State fundraiser to collect a donation for the terror group.

Loxley, also known as Omar Abdullah Bal, denies he knew the errand was linked to Isis and was later released without charge.

But when questioned about his views this week, Loxley doubled down, justifying his decision not to serve “Zionists” by claiming he was afraid of getting into a disagreement about his anti-Zionist views.

He also defended Hamas, denied that mass rapes were committed on October 7 and insisted that Palestinians had the “right to resist”….

Loxley, who was exposed last week by this newspaper for vetting customers on their degree of allegiance to the Jewish state, also claimed that Israel was acting like Nazi Germany. “I feel that [the Holocaust] has been hijacked in some senses to justify what’s in essence colonialism,” he said.

In 2015, Loxley was directed by his electrician brother, Hassan Bal, to pick up what Hassan believed to be £1,000 in cash earmarked for Isis. In reality, it was an A to Z map of London that an undercover Mail on Sunday journalist had dropped off.

When Loxley arrived to collect it, he was photographed by the newspaper and reported to counter-terror police. In 2018, his brother was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Waterford Circuit Court after he pleaded guilty at the Irish court to two charges of providing and attempting to provide funding for Isis.

Loxley told the JC that he had been asked to pick up the money by his brother and that he was unaware of any links to Isis.

The brothers were raised in the UK and Ireland by a Turkish father, who was a strict Muslim, and an English mother of Irish descent. After their father moved back to the UK from Ireland, Hassan embraced extremism.

Months before he sent Loxley to pick up the supposed Isis donation, he attempted to travel to Syria and was stopped at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.

Loxley said he did not know at the time that his brother had tried to join Isis, and that he had volunteered to pick up the donation because he trusted him. “I believed the money was going to a charitable cause,” he said….