ABSTRACT
Building on the list of facts and events relevant to the conflicts occurring in Southwest Asia and North Africa region since 2011, this chapter establishes the systemic connections between cultural norms, unresolved grievances, economic interests, geopolitics, and historical forces and human rights abuses. This chapter frames the 2011 wars in SWANA as a primary example of the State's role in committing or allowing human rights abuses. It additionally underscores humans’ inevitable trend towards these abuses. The author demonstrates with finality, that the West's involvement, by deploying its own value systems directly and indirectly, in societies across the globe, precludes it from escaping notice in such a work. It has interwoven itself inextricably from Islamic societies’ governments, cultures, lands, and people.
