(Reuters) – Residents and authorities in a rural upstate New York community were taking precautions after an Arizona man posted a video online showing himself with a gun and saying he was traveling to the town for a possible confrontation, according to media reports.
Jon Ritzheimer, of Phoenix, Arizona, was seen with a gun and claiming that he was heading to Islamberg, a rural hamlet that is home to a small Muslim community about 130 miles northwest of New York City, the reports said. His comments could be viewed as threatening, they said.
Ritzheimer posted the video on Facebook, according to the reports.
New York City’s Daily News, citing sources, reported that the FBI had issued an alert to law enforcement agencies to look out for him.
“After recently becoming aware of a video which could have been perceived as threatening against the Muslim community in Hancock, N.Y., the FBI immediately took steps to notify our federal, state and local partners,” the paper quoted a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Albany field office as saying.
Neither the FBI or Ritzheimer could be contacted immediately by Reuters.
It was at least the second threat against the town this year, after an ex-Congressional candidate from Tennessee was accused of plotting to burn down a mosque and use an assault rifle against anyone who tried to stop him.
Robert Doggart, who made a failed bid for Congress in 2014 as an independent with highly conservative views, pleaded guilty in April to interstate communication of threats.
Formed by a group of African-American Muslims from New York City, the community follows the teachings of Pakistani Sufi cleric Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, who during the 1980s urged his American acolytes to leave metropolitan areas and establish rural communities centered on religious life.
Islamberg is one of about a dozen Muslim enclaves formed in accordance with the cleric’s ideas. It also serves as home to Muslims of America, a Gilani-founded organization.
The Muslims of America have called for Ritzheimer’s arrest, according to the reports.
“We let the FBI know as soon as we saw the video,” a report quoted spokesman Muhammad Matthew Gardner as saying. “We upped our security at all our properties.”
(Reporting by Chris Michaud; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
Another brainwashed dumbass who thinks Muslims are going to force us all to covert and live under Sharia law or whatever. Wake up, buddy, and see the real threat to your freedom. It isn’t exactly subtle.
Incidentally, wouldn’t it be nice if libertarians would form rural communities and/or towns like these Muslims have? I know about the Free State Project, but I’d like to see quicker results, even if on a much smaller scale. Isolation from like-minded individuals is one of the greatest weaknesses of those who seek freedom in the US.
I wouldn’t move to VT. OR elect ANY representative(unless I was on vacation).
BMF, I could not agree more! That is exactly what needs to be done. We all talk about when SHTF, but when it does if we’re separated what good would a thousand guns do? This is the purpose of organizing militia and time is ticking.
I can agree with that, I’d load up and ship out to any local with similar minded persons, a lot
Of acreage and fresh water is all we’d need. The rest can be built by Americans, housing to a schoolhouse to communal dining. It can and had been done for thousands of years. minds of men can be contorted when not in contact with peers of their own. Hence down with the Internet etc. we can do it.
It is my dream that this becomes a reality very soon. We have to realize the importance of this. Believe me, alone we will be picked off, but together we can stand.
Hey Angel! 😀
Saw them live at the Teenage Fair (actually WAS a teenager at the time) at the Hollywood Palladium.
Incredibly, I met the lead guitarist, Henry Vester when I lived in Blodgett, OR. He was living in Summit (just a short way up the road).
I remember you speaking of that. 😀 😉
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/canned-heat-human-condition/119004
LOL… almost a year ago. 🙂
It wasn’t ’69 for sure. Hendrix played at that one.
“Islamberg is one of about a dozen Muslim enclaves…”
Excellent name choice.
In any Middle Eastern country.
Just plain stupid here.
“We let the FBI know as soon as we saw the video,”
LOL… waste of time.
More than likely they created it.
ritzheimer? lol!!!
Yep! LOL!
Wow. No wonder we have people pouring in. Women….strap on a pair and straighten out the country. And bring some hungarian blood in. These convos are proof of brain dead. Don’t you guys feel free to give away my country and my children’s inheritance. Fraidy cats.
The muslims didn’t fall out of the sky…send them back to their countries. Same with” all refugees”. If it does hit the fan….remember.. these ppl can go home. You can’t, because your home is here.