[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“Were the attacking birds Amish ?”

Asshats who ‘blame the Amish’ are ignorant. It is a disgrace to FR that some do that. Call a spade a spade...but not ‘Amish’. I have many Amish friends in the world’s largest Amish Community, located in Holmes County, Ohio. These ‘characterizations’ are full of the drivel coming out of said noses of those who speak so ignorantly. Those who do think it is ‘smart’...well, I think it is a ‘smart-ass’ kind of comment that we should not use on FR.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Calm down, Hoss. People would have to be seriously dense if they thought we were talking about the real Amish as a violent, deranged breed.

[Verginius Rufus]

It may be time to drop the Amish theme because it has become threadbare and overdone, but I don't think there was ever any intent to insult the Amish. Rather the idea was that it was preposterous because the Amish would be the least likely, of any group in the population, to be guilty of the offenses. The idea was to mock the media for their habit of hiding the identity of perpetrators when they belong to groups who are never supposed to be criticized.

On an historical note it is worth remembering that the ancestors of the Amish came to this country when William Penn offered toleration and religious freedom to anyone who wanted to come to Pennsylvania. The Mennonites had been victims of persecution in Europe for about a century and a half by that time. Freedom of religion and religious tolerance--it would be a great thing if the current regime would learn that those should be enjoyed by everyone, not just Muslims.

[oblomov]

Now the Mennonites on the other hand...