Son Cuts Man's Beard In Latest Amish Attack

[rug]

by The Associated Press
November 11, 2011

An elderly Amish man was attacked by his own son, who a sheriff said cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in a breakaway Amish community. The victim told the sheriff he was scared and upset but wouldn't press charges.

"I'm frustrated with it. I'm upset with it. And, here again, the man doesn't want to file charges because of his belief," Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said Friday.

Abdalla warned the son in advance that he didn't want trouble and parked nearby during the father-son reunion, the first in several years.

The sheriff said the elderly man was attacked Wednesday while visiting his son in the breakaway Amish community that's home to five suspects charged in an earlier beard-cutting attack. The son, whose father-in-law is the group's leader, wasn't among those charged earlier, Abdalla said.

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/11/142248616/son-cuts-mans-beard-in-latest-amish-attack?ft=1&f=1016

:wtf:

[MarkCharles]

1. Moral of the story, never give an Atheist thug a pair of scissors!

:sarcasm:

Seriously,
Intolerance and violence is wrong no matter who is doing it.

Although I feel very sad about someone like this losing his beard, in the general scheme of things, this is a very isolated incident involving yet another bigoted thug engaging in foolish violence, not an Earth-shaking news item.

[Confusious]

3. Did you forget the sarcasm tag?

This about the Amish, not atheists.

[Name removed]

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[Ian David]

5. Atheist? n/t

[MarkCharles]

10. Most Atheists I know are pacifists, as well, No I was being flippant...

trying to play into the purpose of the pointlessness of the poster of this thread.

I'm sorry if I offended any of my fellow Atheists. Sometimes my humor is rather dark.

[Ian David]

13. Next time, raise your hand when you get to the punchline. n/t

[MarkCharles]

15. Just read my posts and think, and challenge me if they don't make sense

to thinking people.

I apologize for those offended by my mention of Atheism in a humorous way.

[rug]

20. It's a nice touch that you grovel while apologizing to your fellow atheists.

Just thought I'd point that out so you wouldn't think it's a pointless post.

[Quartermass]

2. I Would Love It

I would love it if people would learn to not be so hung up on what other people believed or how they lived. As long as they aren't truly harming others, what should it matter? Bigotry, prejudice, and racism are wrong, no matter who does it. L.

[rug]

4. I can ususually follow these disputes but this one baffles me.

[Ian David]

7. We will have to wait until Harrison Ford does a movie about it. n/t

[flying rabbit]

8. Maybe

Mel Gibson will tackle it.

[Ian David]

14. Mel Gibson would blame it on Jews. n/t

[rug]

19. Wrong sect.

[MarkCharles]

12. Great post! I agree.

Harming human beings,even if only harming their dignity through defacing their ethnicity, or religious human appearance or signatures, (no real enduring physical harm to their body, only a few months of tormented "look" to the face of the victim)..

All of this is wrong, no matter who does it to another human being.

Simple as that.

[MADem]

9. OMG...you cannot make this shit up--there is a MULLET involved!

Business in the front, party in the back?

Abdalla said the beard-cutting incidents are related to Sam Mullet, leader of the breakaway Amish group in the Bergholz area. The group has had differences with other bishops over the handling of church matters, and Abdalla said the son of the latest victim is married to Mullet's daughter.

Mullet told The Associated Press last month that the hair-cutting was a response to criticism of his leadership from other Amish bishops.

"They changed the rulings of our church here, and they're trying to force their way down our throat, make us do like they want us to do, and we're not going to do that," Mullet said.

[rug]

21. Lol.

I missed that.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

11. That's ridiculous. The son is an idiot. Let people think what they will as long as they're

not bothering anyone.

[bluedave]

16. is this

a Samson joke?:wtf:

[4moronyears]

17. Why am I suddenly reminded of this song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg

[jdadd]

18. Here's the perps......

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/19/141526277/amish-community-shaken-by-attacks-from-splinter-group