Saudi Arabia | 2007-2016
Religious Persecution
Description
On the last April 23rd, 2019, Saudi Arabia executed 37 people, most of them Shia Muslims (minority religion). Dr. Tenzin Dorjee, Chair of the Comission (United States) said “The Saudi government’s execution of minority Shia Muslims on the basis of their religious identity and peaceful activism is not only shocking, but also directly contradicts the government’s official narrative of working towards greater modernisation and improving religious freedom conditions”.
Read more about the executions on Aljazeera.
Saudi Arabia owns a position among the countries in the world with higher religious persecution. The visualizations bellow compare Saudi Arabia with other countries with high religous persecution from each continent.
Data collected from: Pew-Templeton | Global Religous Futures Project. You will see two measurements:
- Government Restrictions
- Social Hostilities
The measures range from 0-10. See the next tab (Data) for more details about the data.
Visualizations
saudi %>%
filter(Country == "Saudi Arabia") %>%
ggplot(aes(Year, Value)) +
geom_line(stat = "identity", aes(linetype = Issue), color = "darkgreen", size = 1.2) +
geom_line(data = saudi %>% filter(Country == "World Average"),
stat = "identity", aes(linetype = Issue), color = "black", size = 1) +
geom_line(data = saudi %>% filter(!Country %in% c("Saudi Arabia", "World Average")),
stat = "identity", aes(group = Country), color = "black", alpha = .15) +
geom_text(label = "Saudi Arabia", x = 2015, y = 6.5, color = "darkgreen", size = 3) +
geom_text(label = "World Average", x = 2015, y = 2.3, color = "black", size = 3) +
labs(y = "Level of Persecution") +
theme(legend.position = c(0.8,0.95),
legend.direction = "vertical",
legend.title = element_blank(),
legend.box.background = element_blank(),
legend.background = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
panel.grid = element_blank(),
axis.title.x = element_blank(),
axis.ticks = element_blank())
gif.saudi.gov <- saudi %>%
filter(Issue == "Government Restrictions") %>%
group_by(Year) %>%
mutate(rank = rank(Value, ties.method="first")) %>%
ungroup() %>%
mutate(saudi = ifelse(Country == "Saudi Arabia", 1, 0)) %>%
ggplot(aes(rank, group = Country, fill = Continent)) +
geom_bar(stat = 'identity', aes(y = Value, alpha = saudi)) +
geom_text(aes(label = Country, y = Value, alpha = saudi), position = position_dodge(0.1), size = 3) +
scale_alpha(range = c(0.5,1), guide = F) +
scale_fill_manual(values = colors) +
labs(subtitle = '{closest_state}',
y = "Government RestrictionsSocial Hostilities") +
coord_flip(expand = T) + #clip = "off", expand = FALSE) +
theme(axis.line.y = element_blank(),
axis.ticks.y = element_blank(),
axis.text.y = element_blank(),
axis.title.y = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
panel.grid = element_blank(),
legend.position = "top",
legend.key.size = unit(0.4, "cm"),
legend.text = element_text(size = 8),
legend.title = element_text(size = 10, color = "black"),
title = element_text(size = 15, face = "bold", colour = "blue")) +
transition_states(Year, transition_length = 5, state_length = 1) +
ease_aes('cubic-in-out') +
#ease_aes('linear') +
#ease_aes('quadratic-in-out') +
enter_fade() +
exit_shrink()
animate(gif.saudi.gov, fps = 25, duration = 45, width = 800, height = 600, renderer = gifski_renderer("saudi_gov.gif"))
gif.saudi <- saudi %>%
filter(Issue == "Social Hostilities") %>%
group_by(Year) %>%
mutate(rank = rank(Value, ties.method="first")) %>%
ungroup() %>%
mutate(saudi = ifelse(Country == "Saudi Arabia", 1, 0)) %>%
ggplot(aes(rank, group = Country, fill = Continent)) +
geom_bar(stat = 'identity', aes(y = Value, alpha = saudi)) +
geom_text(aes(label = Country, y = Value, alpha = saudi), position = position_dodge(0.1), size = 3) +
scale_alpha(range = c(0.5,1), guide = F) +
scale_fill_manual(values = colors) +
labs(subtitle = '{closest_state}',
y = "Social Hostilities") +
coord_flip(expand = T) + #clip = "off", expand = FALSE) +
theme(axis.line.y = element_blank(),
axis.ticks.y = element_blank(),
axis.text.y = element_blank(),
axis.title.y = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
panel.grid = element_blank(),
legend.position = "top",
legend.key.size = unit(0.4, "cm"),
legend.text = element_text(size = 8),
legend.title = element_text(size = 10, color = "black"),
title = element_text(size = 15, face = "bold", colour = "firebrick")) +
transition_states(Year, transition_length = 5, state_length = 1) +
ease_aes('cubic-in-out') +
#ease_aes('linear') +
#ease_aes('quadratic-in-out') +
enter_fade() +
exit_shrink()
animate(gif.saudi, fps = 25, duration = 45, width = 800, height = 600, renderer = gifski_renderer("saudi.gif"))