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Kansas Muslim faces sentencing for jihad suicide bomb plot at airport

Aug 30, 2015 4:28 pm By Robert Spencer

“I expect to be called a terrorist (which I am), a psychopath, and a homicidal maniac.” Yeah, probably. And all who oppose you and your comrades will be called racists, bigots, and Islamophobes.

Terry Loewen2

“Kansas man faces sentencing for plotting suicide bomb attack at Wichita airport,” by Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press, August 30, 2015:

WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas man’s odyssey into terrorism culminated when he tried to bring a van filled with inert explosives onto the tarmac at the Wichita airport where he worked, an attack prosecutors say was aimed at causing “maximum carnage” during which Terry L. Loewen would die as a martyr.

“I expect to be called a terrorist (which I am), a psychopath, and a homicidal maniac,” he wrote in a letter that investigators later found in his house.

But the plot unraveled on Dec. 13, 2013, when it was revealed to be an elaborate FBI sting operation in which two agents posed as co-conspirators. At the time, Loewen was an avionics technician for Hawker Beechcraft’s facility at Mid-Continent Airport, now called the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport. He was arrested as he tried to use his employee badge on a card reader to bring the fake bomb onto the tarmac.

Loewen, now 60, pleaded guilty in June to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, and is scheduled to be sentenced Monday. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot has already said he was “almost certain” to accept the 20-year proposed sentence that came with the plea deal. If he rejects it, Loewen would be allowed to withdraw his plea.

Loewen’s case is among at least 462 terror crimes associated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State that the U.S. government has prosecuted since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to security issues.

A 20-year prison term would be higher than the national average of 18 years for terrorism undercover operations, said Karen Greenberg, the director of the New York City-based center.

“There is something about this case which really stands out, which is the suicide part of it. We don’t see a lot of it,” she said, adding that more than a quarter of terrorism cases involve undercover stings similar to the one which ensnared Loewen….

Yeah, it’s unprecedented.

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  1. mortimer says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Koran 8.60 “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorize them)

    Terry L. Loewen proudly calls himself ‘a terrorist’.

    Terrorism is an eternal commandment of Allah, the bloodthirsty, delusional, tribal god of Bronze Age Arabs.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 30, 2015 at 5:11 pm

      PSYCHOPATHY is part of Allah. Allah is no more than the PSYCHOPATHIC projection of Bronze Age Arabs who required a deity to justify their sexual depravity, rapacious greed and sociopathic urge to dominate, enslave and exploit everyone not a member of the tribe.

      Christianity and Judaism both require observation of the Golden Rule which is absent from Islam.

      Terry L. Loewen is correct about the psychopathy…he has participated in psychopathy so he is a psychopath by association with this unhealthy, slavery-obsessed, misogynistic Death Cult.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Aug 30, 2015 at 5:44 pm

        “Arabs …are, by their savage nature, people of pillage and corruption.”
        Ibn Khaldun, revered Islamic scholar.
        https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Aug 30, 2015 at 7:44 pm

          The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage.
          — Ibn Kahldun

          If ol’ Ibn were still around, I’d ask him why all those kidnapped white girls are enslaved in the fancy condos in Abu Dhabi. Could it be that they’re unhappy with their plight, but no one hears their complaints?

      • Saleem Smith says

        Aug 30, 2015 at 10:47 pm

        We ex-Muslims know that Islamic theology permits both slavery, sex slavery and rape.

        Islamic law is based entirely on the Quran and Muhammad’s Sunnah (the hadith and sira). The religion of Islam is a grotesque fraud and Muhammad the prophet of Islam was an evil madman who probably never even existed.

        >>>>>

        THE QURANIC SANCTION OF SLAVERY

        The institution of slavery in Islam was formalized in the following Quranic verse, in which Allah distinguishes free human beings or masters, who exercise justice and righteousness, from the dumb, useless and burdensome ones, the slaves:

        Quran 16:76 Allah sets forth (another) Parable of two men: one of them dumb, with no power of any sort; a wearisome burden is he to his master; whichever way he directs him, he brings no good: is such a man equal with one who commands Justice, and is on a Straight Way?

        Allah warns the believers against taking the slaves as equal partner in status and in sharing their wealth, lest they have to fear them as anyone else:

        Quran 30:28… do ye have partners among those whom your right hands possess (i.e., slaves, captives) to share as equals in the wealth We have bestowed on you? Do ye fear them as ye fear each other?

        Allah recognizes some human beings, namely the masters, as more blessed by Himself than the less favored slaves as part of His divine plan. He warns Muslims against sharing His gifts to them equally with their slaves. Those who would take slaves as equal, warns Allah, would deny Him:

        Quran 16:71 Allah has bestowed His gifts of sustenance more freely on some of you than on others: those more favoured are not going to throw back their gifts to those whom their right hands possess, so as to be equal in that respect. Will they then deny the favours of Allah?

        Allah does not only sanction the institution of slavery, He also gave divine blessing to masters (Muslim men only can own slaves) to have sex with the female slaves:

        Quran 70:29–30 And those who guard their private parts, Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess—for these surely are not to be blamed

        Quran 23:5–6 And who guard their private parts, except before their mates or those whom their right hands possess, for they surely are not blameable

        Therefore, if there are women amongst the captives or slaves, Muslims are divinely sanctioned to have sex with them as they do with their wives. This verdict of Allah founded the institution of sex-slavery or slave-concubinage in Islam, which was widespread in the pre-colonial Muslim world and continued well into the mid-twentieth century. As far as legal marriage is concerned, there is a limitation of four wives for a man at one time [Quran 4:3], but no such limitation on the number of sex-slaves.

        Allah also gave a divine sanction to Muslims for acquiring female slaves for sexual engagement by waging wars against the infidels:

        Quran 33:50 O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war…

        Muslims can engage in sex with the captured slave women even if they are married, but not with the married free Muslim women:

        Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess… [Quran 4:24].

        There are other verses in the Quran that talks approvingly of slaves and capturing them in wars. Thus, according to the divine commands of the Islamic God as enshrined in the holy Quran, Muslims are allowed to keep slaves. They can amass slaves by waging wars, have sex with the female slaves, and of course, use them as they wish. For Muslims, having sex with female slaves is as legal as having sex with their married wives. Slavery appears to be one of the most desired divine privileges in Islam, since Allah took the pain of reminding Muslims about this divine right time and again in so many verses.

        http://www.faithfreedom.org/

        • Jay Boo says

          Aug 30, 2015 at 10:59 pm

          Saleem Smith

          “The religion of Islam is a grotesque fraud”
          ———————-

          You truly do a great job at revealing that truth.

        • mach37 says

          Aug 31, 2015 at 1:17 pm

          I get an error when trying to access that URL, faithfreedom.org; has it been hacked? (8-31-2015, 18:15 UTC/GMT)

      • Shane says

        Aug 31, 2015 at 9:40 am

        Islam has great appeal to those who hunger to rape and murder others, as the religion justifies such behavior.

    • Brian says

      Aug 30, 2015 at 6:02 pm

      Allah is described as “The Great Deceiver”…Now we all know who the “Great Deceiver” is – long, long before psychopath Muhammad came about… it is….

      Satan… “The Father of Lies”

      • Judi says

        Aug 30, 2015 at 6:33 pm

        Brian – I would say the ‘Great Deceiver’ is Barak Hussein Obama.

  2. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    A 20-year prison term would be higher than the national average of 18 years…

    A more reasonable punishment for an attempted mass murderer would be death by execution. This is another example where we’re at war but we’re not really at war depending on the situation and what you want.

    My vote is that we’re not at war. We’re involuntarily involved in a halfhearted defensive campaign to save ourselves from too much mass murder and omnipresent terror fear of the same. We need to keep the mass murders to a minimum and keep the terror among the population at an acceptable level, but we’re not at war because there is no named enemy, only a shaky idea of tangential perverters to be handled by the criminal justice system.

    • roland says

      Aug 31, 2015 at 12:54 am

      These perverters share the same ideology as those making nukes.
      Armageddon is imminent.

  3. abad says

    Aug 30, 2015 at 9:12 pm

    He looks more like a Jethro to me rather than Ali.

    But whatever.

  4. No Fear says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 2:08 am

    I get depressed and feel like I have let everyone down when I scratch the volunteer shopping bus that I have been driving. I mope around for days with feelings of guilt over my “crime”.

    Yet this guy plans mayhem and murder and he doesn’t give a toss.

    The human mind is wierd.

  5. ECAW says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 4:33 am

    It is quite wrong to refer to Mohammed as a psychopath, as research (literally hours of) has shown:

    https://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/diagnosis/

  6. Lily says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    Islam always goes after the vulnerable, gullible, brainless, dysfunctional rejects of society.

    Guys From Al-Qaida…”No Survivors. Eye of the Tiger Parody.

    ” I’m a jerk; a self obsessed brat.
    Making Crap Clips with dads money.
    This guys a dickhead and this guys a twat.
    These inbred weren’t breast fed as a child

    We’re the guys from Al-Qaida and we’re crazy as hell,
    and we’re blaming the world for our problems.
    So if you are a loser who cannot hack your life
    Don’t just beat up your kids and your wife, join Al-Qaida.”

    Rest of the song lyrics are on video, but it fits the idiot, and his ilk in the story very well.

  7. Angemon says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    There is something about this case which really stands out, which is the suicide part of it. We don’t see a lot of it

    And if you refuse to see the allure the afterlife has on muslims – you know, the heavenly brothel – you’ll never understand what makes suicide bombers tick. Prepare to see more and more suicide attacks – bombers or not.

  8. Oliver says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    Was this piece of crap born a Muslim, or a convert while in prison?

    if the latter, why/how did he get a job at an airport, where there are planes (duh) and loads of people?

    Just asking.

    (I did try to post this a few days ago, but it never made it)

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