Hawzah News Agency-A Massachusetts man was arrested and charged on Tuesday with threatening on Facebook to burn down a Boston mosque.

Patrick Keogan, a 44-year-old resident of the Boston suburb of Winchester, was charged with making a criminal threat over the internet and with being a convicted felon illegally in possession of ammunition, federal prosecutors said.

The day after the deadly Paris attack, Keogan posted an image on the Facebook page of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center showing a mosque in flames with the caption "burn your local mosque," prosecutors said.

In court papers, they said leaders of the Islamic Center opted to report the threat because it followed so closely on the Paris attacks, "although it is not uncommon for the ISBCC to receive hateful and anti-Muslim messages."

Prosecutors said an investigation into Keogan revealed he was buying ammunition, which he was legally prohibited from doing after convictions on charges including assault and battery.

Last month, a Connecticut man was sentenced to six months in prison after shooting at an unoccupied mosque near his Meriden home late at night after the Paris attacks. No one was hurt in the incident.

A report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations found the number of threats against mosques in the United States hit a record high of 78 last year, the most since the group began tracking such incidents in 2009.