Though Bat Ye'or acknowledges that not all Muslims subscribe to so-called "militant jihad theories of society," she argues that the role of sharia in the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam demonstrates that what she calls a perpetual war against those who won't submit to Islam is still an "operative paradigm" in Islamic countries.
Selvom Bat Ye’or medgiver at ikke alle muslimer abonnere på militante jihadideologier, så argumentere hun for at sharialovenes rolle i Kairodeklarationen om menneskerettigheder i Islam fra 1990, demonstrerer at hvad hun beskriver som den evige krig mod dem der ikke underkaster sig islam, stadig er en grundlæggende paradigme i islamiske lande.