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, year = 2003 , title = Islam: Questions and Answers - Schools of Thought, Religions and Sects , author = Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman , quotee = Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid , volume = 8 , publisher = MSA Publication Limited , isbn = 9781861792914 , page = 89 , passage = The athiest' is destined to Hell fire in the Hereafter. This is because the ' athiest refuses the most basic belief which is the existance(SIC) and oneness of Allaah. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=xcPwGmYwCKUC&pg=PA89 }}

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, year = 2004 , title = Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right & Right Is Wrong , author = Alan Colmes , publisher = HarperCollins , isbn = 0060562978 , quotee = "Mr. S" (username) , page = 281 , passage = If you were an honest journelist(SIC) you would admit that you were an athiest and love to see a birth canal baby die with with(SIC) a shot of fermaldihide(SIC) in the brain. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=bXq-6gltFDgC&pg=PA281 }}

Noun

(en noun)

One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation.

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One who opposes orthodoxy and religion; one who adheres to the doctrine of iconoclasm.

* 2008 The Handbook of Texas Online , William Cowper Brann , Texas State Historical Association, Austin [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/fbr23.html]:

In February 1895 he [William Cowper Brann, 1855-1898 ] revived publication of the Iconoclast . This time it was successful and eventually attained a circulation of 100,000. Brann took obvious relish in directing his stinging attacks upon institutions and persons he considered to be hypocritical or overly sanctimonious.

One who attacks cherished beliefs.