Religious hair cutting attacks: Arrests made

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laresFri 25/11/11 01:15

"Seven men have been charged for hate-crime in the US state of Ohio following a number of hair-cutting attacks in the Amish community. Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla told journalists that Amish communities had been terrified by the attacks.

"You've got Amish all over the state of Ohio and Pennsylvania and Indiana that are concerned. We've received hundreds and hundreds of calls from people living in fear," Mr Abdalla said. "They are buying Mace, some are sitting with shotguns, getting locks on their doors because of Sam Mullet."

They are accused of carrying out "religiously motivated physical assaults" and causing injury by use of a dangerous weapon. The criminal complaint charges them with "wilfully caused bodily injury... or attempting to do so by use of a dangerous weapon, because of the actual or perceived religion of that person".

It is alleged that they "forcibly restrained multiple Amish men and cut off their beards and head hair with scissors and battery-powered clippers", according to the Department of Justice.

The incidents are viewed as particularly offensive in the conservative Amish community, where women do not cut their hair and men grow beards once they marry. In the most recent attack this month, a man in his 70s was set upon by his own son, who wrestled his father to the floor and cut the hair on his head and beard.

The Amish, a tiny Christian community also known as the Plain People, generally shun modern conveniences such as electricity, televisions and cars."

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maguaFri 25/11/11 09:36

http://a.abcnews.com/images/WNT/abc_wn_amish_111123_wg.jpg

quirky haircuts.

it's facinating how cultures, like animals, radiate.

laresFri 25/11/11 11:31

quoting > "quirky haircuts."

To be fair, of all the assaults that people could commit on me, I think a random hair cutting would be low on my fear list.

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