Fullerton, CA—The Islam Commentaries web site is on hiatus for the remainder of 2008.

In the years following the events of 11 September 2001, a number of web sites were published that several Islamic organizations characterized as anti-Islamic in nature. We are pleased to note that The Islam Commentaries web site has never been included in the category of anti-Islamic websites, whether in nature, content, or intent. As a matter of historical fact, The Islam Commentaries were published during 2002 from offices owned and operated by Muslims, several of whom were appreciated on a deep level.

During its time of publication, The Islam Commentaries web site served as an academic resource web site to equip people to defend themselves against threats posed from conservative, Wahhabi-type, radical Muslims who had targeted the West. It ceased publication in early 2006, restarted publication in July 2006, and ceased publication permanently on 11 September 2006, the fifth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, the attack on the Pentagon, and what appears to have been an attempted attack on either the White House or the US Capitol building (it crashed short of the probable intended target). The Islam Commentaries web site claimed First Amendment rights of freedom of speech as the basic framework upon which the web site was crafted.

The Islam Commentaries web site began about a year after the death in Afghanistan of Johnny Micheal Spann, the husband of Shannon Spann. CIA intelligence officer Spann was killed in late November 2001 as the first hostile action casualty of Operation Enduring Freedom, America's first military response to the September 11 attacks. Mr. Spann's wife Shannon was then a long-time acquaintance of the publisher of The Islam Commentaries. They met in early 1996 when she was the acting president of Simon Greenleaf University, then located in Anaheim, California—well before she joined CIA in mid-1999. Following the events of 11 September 2001, it took about a year to research thoroughly the teachings and intents of conservative Islam so that The Islam Commentaries web site could be started. As most Americans know, the events of 9-11 were carried out by 19 Muslims who held to the teachings of the Wahhabi sect of Islam. Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and Al-Qaeda are among the most well-known members of this group of Muslims.

The Islam Commentaries web pages never opposed those tolerant Muslims that characterize much of modern Islam in America. The Islam Commentaries web site never promoted or advocated personal violence against individual Muslims who reject the belligerence that attends the behavior and teachings of conservative, Wahhabi-type Muslims.

Furthermore, The Islam Commentaries web site warned liberal, non-combatant Muslims that they themselves are a target for attack by conservative, Wahhabi-type Muslims who deem liberal American Muslims to be heretical apostates worthy of death.

The Islam Commentaries web site advocated active opposition against radical, Wahhabi-type Muslim organizations such as Al-Qaeda, their leaders, and their disciples when and only when they are involved in active acts of belligerency, war, or attacks on the West.

The Islam Commentaries web site advocated that the West in general recognize that the current struggles in which our nation is engaged are not, strictly speaking, wars on "terror" and against "terrorism". Instead, The Islam Commentaries web site held that the struggle is against conservative, Wahhabi-type, radical Islam and not against generic "terrorism".

The Islam Commentaries web site equipped people to refute—in the realm of academic argument—the tenets of conservative, Wahhabi-type, radical Islam, providing provided timely editorial observations in support of this task.

The Islam Commentaries web site supported America's active acts against conservative, Wahhabi-type, radical Islam on a national level, utilizing the war powers granted under the United States Constitution, and not on a personal level, except for acts of personal defensive response when and if an individual, a friend, or his family is attacked on a personal level.

The Islam Commentaries advocated that the best and highest form of warfare that should be waged against conservative, Wahhabi-type, radical Islam is to enter into dialogue with them, demonstrating by logical argument the fallacy of their violent behavior.

The Islam Commentaries hopes that conservative, Wahhabi-type Muslims can be persuaded to abandon their violent ways and live in peace with their global neighbors.

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