crimes and criminals
Guilty Verdict in Amish Beard Cutting Attacks
Last Thursday, a federal jury in Cleveland, Ohio, convicted Samuel Mullet, Sr., and 15 of his followers for conspiracy and hate crimes in their hair and beard cutting attacks on other Amish people in 2011. The trial included three weeks of testimony, and it took the jury nearly a fourth week to reach its verdict. […]
Amish Principles of Nonviolence Challenged
It may seem trite to say that no peaceful society is perfect, but developments last week relating to the aggressive Amish cult in Bergholz, Ohio, and its strange rampage of hair and beard cutting attacks last fall, certainly support such a truism. Sam Mullet, Sr., the Bishop of the Bergholz Amish Church district and the […]
Amish Buggies and Beards
Kentucky and Ohio officials are putting Amish people in jail, in the one state because they refuse to compromise their religious principles, and in the other because a few of them have been terrorizing people. Both issues have been in the news this past week. In late September, a judge in Graves County, Kentucky, sentenced […]
Amish Attack Amish in Central Ohio
The Amish in Carroll, Holmes, Jefferson and Trumbull counties, Ohio, have become increasingly upset in recent weeks because of aggressive, physical attacks by a break-away group who have religious differences with them. The dissident attackers have been cutting off the hair and beards of the men, and in some cases the long hair of the […]
Amish Men Begin Serving Jail Sentences
Three months after some Schwartzentruber Amish lost their case in the Kentucky Court of Appeals, they were sentenced to jail—for refusing to overlook their religious beliefs and mount orange triangles on their buggies. The story about a Graves County, Kentucky, judge putting people in jail for their religious convictions made international headlines. The issue began […]
High Crime Rates for Canada’s Northern Territories
According to a Canadian government report issued on Monday, October 30, victimization from violent crimes appears to be higher among the Canadian Inuit and First Nations than among the rest of Canada’s people. A three-page overview of the survey as well as the full text of the report, prepared by the Canadian Center for Justice […]
