Hair Cutting Hate Crimes

An Amish leader named Samuel Mullet was sentenced to 15 years for endorsing hair cutting attacks. In the Amish religion women can not cut their hair and men have to grow beards once they are married. The judge ruled this a hate crime because their was religious motives against the random attacks. Their was 5 people who were attacked by the rouge Amish followers of Mullet. Each follower recieved 1-7 years in prison for actually comminting the crime. They did it because they wanted to get back at a few Amish community members for religious reasons.