Juan Cole: “That original al-Qaeda has been defeated.”

No, the ideology of Totalitarian Islamic Government, i.e.: Totalitarian Sharia Law, has not died out. The tyranny of Totalitarian Islam, i.e.: Totalitarian Sharia Law will survive until Islam its self is either reformed or destroyed. Totalitarian Sharia Law has to go – it must be changed to a system as outlined in our Declaration of Independence – it must declare that all men (and women) are created equal before the law, and that just government power must derive through the consent of the governed.