Monoclastic

Iconoclasm is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture’s own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives.

I have decided to coin the term monoclasm. A monoclast deliberately tries to destroy another culture’s religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. An example would be a terrorist from the middle east, or a politician from America with a foreign policy agenda, or the Chinese in Tibet.

Why monoclast? First, it rhymes with monoculture (where all these problems start from). ‘Clast’ derives from the late Greek, Klas; the past tense of the noun, Klan -‘to break’. Mono refers to the attempted destruction of one monoculture by another, insecure, monoculture.