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Wichita jihadi’s ex-wife: “I would have never ever thought he would do anything this horrible” — recently learned of his conversion to Islam

Dec 14, 2013 7:04 pm By Robert Spencer

SarahLoewen.jpegSarah Loewen

Something doesn’t add up here. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Damien Loewen “said he didn’t know about any turn toward Islam by his father.” But the story below says of Sarah Loewen that “Damien told her that his dad had become a Muslim.” Is Damien or someone else trying to cover for Terry Loewen, or for some other person?

In any case, she says he was a gentle, happy guy, a good father who had loving parents and a normal childhood. The story is set up as a head-scratcher: what, then, could have made him try to do this horrible thing? The idea that it could have something to do with his conversion to Islam is never entertained; to think such thoughts would be Thoughtcrime: “Islamophobia.”

“Ex-wife of Terry Lee Loewen: “˜I would have never ever thought he would do anything this horrible,– by Molly McMillin for The Wichita Eagle, December 14 (thanks to Darcy):

In the 10 years Terry Lee Loewen was married to his now ex-wife, Sarah, he was a peaceful, easy-going, quiet man.

Loewen, a native Wichitan and graduate of Heights High School, had loving parents and a normal childhood, Sarah Loewen said.

“Terry didn’t like confrontation; he was never one to start a fight,” Sarah Loewen said. “He was so mellow.”

He was a good father to their son, Damien, 24.

Terry Loewen has not been part of her life now for a long time, Loewen said.

Today, she’s angry for what he’s done and what he’s putting their son through.

The man who was capable of developing a suicide attack on the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport “is somebody I never knew,” Loewen said. “I would have never ever thought he would do anything this horrible. I can’t even put it in words.”

Terry Loewen, a 58-year-old avionics technician, was arrested early Friday as authorities allege he moved forward with a plot to detonate explosives at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.

In the aftermath, some Wichitans are left trying to come to terms with what they knew and what they didn’t know about this man.

Damien Loewen declined an interview request.

Terry Loewen’s planned attack was designated to kill himself and inflict the maximum number of deaths, a detailed criminal complaint said.

Authorities arrested Loewen about 5:40 a.m. after they say he tried to open a security access gate to the airport and deliver a vehicle loaded with what he thought to be high explosives but were not.

What he didn’t know until his arrest is that the people he had been conspiring with were undercover FBI agents, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced Friday.

Loewen faces three federal charges: One count of trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, one count of attempting to damage property and one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization that Loewen allegedly thought was al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen.

The news was a “total shock,” Sarah Loewen said.

“It angers me to no end that my son has to deal with this,” she said. “I don’t know how he could do this to his child.”

Her son and his father had a good relationship.

“They were close,” Sarah Loewen said. “This is going to be a hard road for him (Damien).”

She’s not seen Terry Loewen since their son’s wedding in April….

“He was happy. He was a normal human being,” she said.

They filed for divorce in 1994.

She didn’t know why or how Terry Loewen had formed such radical ideas.

But recently, Damien told her that his dad had become a Muslim.

“I said, “˜What is wrong with him?” ” Sarah Loewen said….

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