We've reported to you on the controversy surrounding the show 'Breaking Amish', but now there is a show to premiere next month on the Discovery Channel that casts some Amish in an even more extreme light.
The show is called 'Amish Mafia'.
"This is trash and it's disgusting and the images about Amish people that are articulated in these kind of media treatments are generally false." Donald Kraybill an Elizabethtown College Professor.
Professor Kraybill is one of the nation's top scholars on the Amish. "The whole purpose is to gain viewership, increase market share and sell ads. Unfortunately the truth suffers."
But the Discovery Channel insists that they were able over the course of two years to get access to this secret organization.
Brian 'Kaos' Miller believes the Amish Mafia exists. "I am sure they do with the church, they take care of their own that way."
Jerry Bradley, thinks the show is fake. "The Amish that I saw on the program portraying the Amish, they aren't Amish."
Another believer, Josh Miller said he thinks the show is portraying reality. "They do their own thing with everything else, so why not."
One person told us, "to use weapons to threaten people, intimate people is completely out of order in terms of Amish life."
One of the premises for the need of an Amish Mafia is that the Amish are reluctant to use traditional police services.
"That is just bogus, the Amish people will call the police if there is a crime going on, they will call 911. That is exactly what happened at Nickel Mines when somebody walked in and started shooting Amish Girls they called 911." Kraybill said.
The Amish Community will not talk to us about this show. But Kraybill says that isn't unusual. "Genuine Amish people won't face the camera and won't talk on television. There is nothing really the Amish people can do about it. They don't have a public relations official. The bottom line is they are not saints, they don't walk on water, they are human beings like the rest of us."
Is the the Amish Mafia real? The show premiers next month on the Discovery Channel and you can judge for yourself.
The show is called 'Amish Mafia'.
"This is trash and it's disgusting and the images about Amish people that are articulated in these kind of media treatments are generally false." Donald Kraybill an Elizabethtown College Professor.
Professor Kraybill is one of the nation's top scholars on the Amish. "The whole purpose is to gain viewership, increase market share and sell ads. Unfortunately the truth suffers."
But the Discovery Channel insists that they were able over the course of two years to get access to this secret organization.
Brian 'Kaos' Miller believes the Amish Mafia exists. "I am sure they do with the church, they take care of their own that way."
Jerry Bradley, thinks the show is fake. "The Amish that I saw on the program portraying the Amish, they aren't Amish."
Another believer, Josh Miller said he thinks the show is portraying reality. "They do their own thing with everything else, so why not."
One person told us, "to use weapons to threaten people, intimate people is completely out of order in terms of Amish life."
One of the premises for the need of an Amish Mafia is that the Amish are reluctant to use traditional police services.
"That is just bogus, the Amish people will call the police if there is a crime going on, they will call 911. That is exactly what happened at Nickel Mines when somebody walked in and started shooting Amish Girls they called 911." Kraybill said.
The Amish Community will not talk to us about this show. But Kraybill says that isn't unusual. "Genuine Amish people won't face the camera and won't talk on television. There is nothing really the Amish people can do about it. They don't have a public relations official. The bottom line is they are not saints, they don't walk on water, they are human beings like the rest of us."
Is the the Amish Mafia real? The show premiers next month on the Discovery Channel and you can judge for yourself.