Hawzah News Agency-A meeting to discuss building a mosque in a Georgia town was canceled after the discovery of threatening social media posts.

In a statement stopping the meeting, Newton County said that demonstrators have a right to free speech, but that a video posted online showed some in a nearby area “exhibiting harassing or violent behavior.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said that the meeting was also quashed because “anti-Muslim extremists” planned an armed protest.

CAIR said it condemned those it said were threatening public officials, but also criticized the commissioners for not going through with a vote expected to allow construction of the new Muslim house of worship.

“Every day, American Muslims stand up to the threats of bigoted extremists. Government officials should be brave enough to do the same,” it said.

The moratorium on building houses of worship in Newton County is set to expire on Sept. 21, and the commissioners said in their release that they have no plans to extend it.