forcible Amish haircuts blamed on Mullets

[Enrique]

Sam, Johnny and Lester Mullet.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ohio-amish-leader-beard-cutting-religious-matter-14709442

In an unusually public display of trouble among the traditionally guarded Amish, a breakaway group is accused of attacking mainstream members by cutting off their beards and hair, which carry spiritual significance in the faith.

The leader of the breakaway group told The Associated Press in a rare interview this week that one recent attack was a religious issue stemming from long-standing resentment of his group's treatment.

The goal was to send a message to Amish in Holmes County that they should be ashamed of themselves for their treatment of the community, which has been called a cult, said Sam Mullet, 66.

"We'd like to get up in the morning, be left alone, live like normal people," Mullet said Monday, speaking at his farm outside Bergholz, a village of about 700 residents where he established his community in 1995. "They won't leave us be."

Authorities in Jefferson County on Saturday arrested two of Mullet's sons, 38-year-old Johnny Mullet and 26-year-old Lester Mullet, and another man from the community, 53-year-old Levi Miller, on burglary and kidnapping warrants out of nearby Holmes County, home to the world's largest Amish community.

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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. When I read that story yesterday...

I made very sure that no links to "The Onion" were anywhere on the page.

[snooper2]

2. At 4:30 in the mornin' I'm milking cows

Jedediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool
And I've been milking and plowing so long that
Even Ezekial thinks that my mind is gone

I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine
Then tonight we're going to party like it's 1699


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I keed I keed, we love the Amish...The may be the only religious fundies who are an innocent :)

[kestrel91316]

3. Sounds like he doesn't like being shunned. Shouldn't have joined

in the first place, Mr. Mullet. The Amish don't shun people who don't join in the first place, only those who join and then go against their word.

[Scuba]

4. It's unlikely that he joined. More likely that he grew up knowing nothing else. n/t

[WilliamPitt]

5. Milkin' up front, party in the back.

:)

[Katya Mullethov]

6. yawn

Not impressed .