Monday, November 5, 2012

Iconoclast

An iconoclast is a person who pursues the destruction of religious symbols or any time of dogma or conventions or with religious statements with political motives. Iconoclasm is the term of what the iconoclasts are doing. There are examples of iconoclasm all over the world - 
              1. Several Muslim denominations seek out iconoclastic agendas  - Over the years controversy has risen within Islam because of destruction of historic sites by Meccas authorities 
              2. In 2001 there was an act of destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamyan by the Taliban government of Afghanistan. After this protests began because obviously other Muslims and Muslim government did not support this. The act was seen as a threat against "the coexistence between the Buddhas and the Muslim population that marveled at them for over a millennium". 
              3. In 2012 the Tuareg rebellion occurred and Ansar Dine destroyed a few Sufi shrines in the city of Timbuktu, Mali  
              4. From class today, Orlan was shown in several pictures dressed as Mother Theresa religiously making the pictures sexual and turning the crosses upside down. It's completely unnecessary and offensive. 

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