While so far no one has appeared to confirm a fourth season for Discovery's controversial Amish Mafia, the question about whether or not the show was cancelled may finally have been answered.

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Alan Beiler, who was largely absent from the show's third season due to a stint in jail, recently took to his Facebook page to post a photo that seems to hint the show would indeed be back-despite being on a four-month break after the cast and producers reportedly had a falling out.

"Whose ready for more Amish Mafia!!!" he posted July 22, over a photo that appears to be advertising the show.

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The photo, on a grey background, has the head of an Amish man etched onto it, above two crossed pitchforks. The show's name and an official Discovery logo are also on the image.

If this is a sign the show is coming back for a fourth season, it is the first time someone from either Discovery or the cast has outright confirmed the show's return, after the season three finale in April showed the cast refusing to continue filming after a dispute with producers.

The official Amish Mafia Facebook page put a photo up back after the finale aired, informing that the cast and crew had halted production on February 26. The image still remains as the profile's cover photo.

Despite the show's potential return, it may not be welcomed back quite as warmly, as a local movement in Lancaster has aimed to get the show, and others like it, removed from the air because they are a form of what is being called 'Amish-sploitation.'

Local filmmaker Mary Haverstick has begun a campaign to get the show, as well as others that have been deemed as exploiting the peaceful Amish community, off the air as they are painting a negative and inaccurate image of a peaceful and religious people.

Haverstick has started both a website (respectamish.org) and a Facebook page to help her cause, and says she has had enough of the exploitation.

"No religious group in America should have to endure a barrage of 'reality' television filled with criminal acts and non-stop images of their youth in violation of their beliefs. Neighbors are now speaking out and saying this is not the Amish community we know and bears little resemblance to reality," an introduction to the respect Amish site reads.

In a June 13 interview with a local news station, Haverstick also explained how the acts depicted on the shows -- which includes Amish Mafia, Breaking Amish and the as-of-yet unaired Amish Haunting -- are a form of bigotry because they are putting a negative spin on the lifestyle of the real Amish -- a lifestyle which is governed by the group's strict religion.

"You can't put shows on like this about Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical [people]...it's just plain wrong," she said. "I mean, you just can't do it and it would be seen for what it is, which is bigoted. It is bigoted and prejudice."

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