I finished my workout in the gym and was chatting with a mate. We were talking about minorities and how there are two ways that they can get into difficulty: the first is by being different enough, long enough, and a little bit more successful (although this is not needed, consider Russia and the pogroms) that whenever times get hard the populists can blame those evil Jews/Chinese/Indians.

Or more recently, all of the above, because white privilege. Despite the fact that all three of these groups are not Caucasian. [Sephardic Jews and Semitic, and the Ashkenazim are more akin to the Turks or Iranians than anyone else].

But there is another group that is a danger, and it is nothing to do with race, but their ideology. No I’m not talking about leftists, although the leftists use them as cannon fodder. I’m talking about the religion of war: Islam.

And the radicals — that is serious — Muslims are taking over the mosques in New Zealand.

Authorities believed the pair, who reportedly met in Christchurch, had links to terror group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Havard’s parents told Australia’s ABC news last week that their son first encountered radical Islam in Christchurch.

The city’s Muslim leaders vehemently denied the allegations, with many saying they were disturbed by the claims and the effect they could have on how people viewed their community.

It is important for Muslim leadership to not just gloss over these issues, but actually root out anyone that is preaching fundamentalism, extremism, Islamification, violence, segregation, sharia or jihad.

The Deans Ave facility, known to Muslims as Masjid Annur (the mosque of light), was funded partly by a $460,000 gift from the Saudi kingdom and was looked after by the Muslim Association of Canterbury (MAC).

The mosque now has about 550 members from 40 countries, while another 450 people regularly attend the weekly sermons, MAC president Mohamed Jama said.

Jama joined the Christchurch mosque 15 years ago after fleeing civil war in Somalia and became president of MAC in 2008.

He believed Islam was about peace first and foremost, encouraging its followers to support their families and neighbours. “No fighting and no killing anybody – that’s not religion, not the Muslim way.”

And therein lies the problem. Fighting and killing people is the Muslim way.

A guy drew a cartoon of Mohammed once. We all know what happened after that. Violent uprisings, declarations of holy wars, and aggression.

If Islam is a religion of peace for New Zealand Muslims, it is up to them to ensure the people who are intent on changing that are exposed at the earliest opportunity.

Now, many Muslims say with great sincerity that their religion is a religion of peace, and the war they talk about is the war against evil within themselves. But that is not what is happening around the world. Instead the war is seen as a war against the infidel, and this has caused damage, from Yugoslavia to Singapore.

And there is payback: Alte links the election of a Hindu nationalist (who is no friend of Indian Christians) as a consequence of the continual war between Indian Muslims and Hindus.

I agree with you that Muslims are only the footsoldiers of TPTB. But footsoldiers are the ones that actually do the killing, so I strongly disagree that they are harmless and pitiful. They just act that way on TV (after trying to “ethnically cleanse” their newly-conquered territory of unbelievers and getting their ass kicked in retaliation), so that NATO has an excuse to send in the planes. Serbia, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, the Central African Republic, and now Syria and Nigeria.

The pattern is clear. They’re trying to take over the entire world, and we’re actively helping them do it. They are, in fact, actively compelled by their religion to always take over the government in whichever country they live in because their religion centers around the running of a government (sharia). It’s highly orthopraxic — like Judiasm (which it is partly derived from), but with lots of beheadings, sanctioned rape, and an insatiable thirst for territorial acquisition.

The only Muslim who can integrate into a non-sharia country (including secular dictatorships) is one who ignores the majority of their own religious teaching. Anyone who seriously studies the teachings and takes them to heart will be “radicalized” because Islam is radical. This is inevitable because it is a religion for warriors. Most Westerners cannot understand this because they don’t take their own religious teachings seriously and project their indifference onto everyone else.

Well, some Westerners do take their faith seriously. And herein lies an issue. You can look at the content of this site and accuse me of basically every single sin of this post modern age. I consider most of the current insults virtues: I despise homosexualists, Islamists, people who write speech codes, most lawyers and politicians, the current US government, and every French government since the Fourth Republic. And do not get me started on the EU.

But I would not line them up and shoot them, saying I’m doing the work of God. Most of these people would be killed by Boko Haram and similar organizations. I’d rather preach at them and argue with them and pray for them, for the souls of my enemies are as precious to the Almighty as my own, and death is a one-way trip to the first resurrection, when we will all be judged.

Unfortunately, the leaders within the church do not see this. They consider that there can be interfaith dialogue with Islam. They are wrong.

This new pope is a nightmare. For the first time in history, Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran will be heard at the Vatican on Sunday. I await the church service in Mecca — when non-Muslims are actually allowed to go to Mecca. I await the repeal of apostasy laws under Islam. I await the repeal of blasphemy laws under Islam. I await the apology for the slaughter of hundreds of millions of non-Muslims in jihad wars.Charles Martel, John Sobieski et al are puking in their graves.

Well. this pope is wrong. Islam is not a religion of peace, but of war. It is not truth, but lies: by the fruits you will know it and Islam spreads ignorance, slavery, death and oppression. Last time I looked it was not the Christians hanging gays and stoning women accused of adultery. Or kidnapping and enslaving girls. Or murdering classrooms of boys.

This may not be nice, but this is not a time to be nice.

Christ wasn’t a paradigm of Tolerance. He was Truth, not Tolerance. You simply can’t have both. This is why Christ warned us that it might be necessary to quarrel with our very parents, and with our very children! If this is what Christ commands to a son or a mother, how is the new value of “peace” and “harmony” justified when dealing with people who are, to all intents and purposes, perfect strangers?

I allow myself to be countercultural here, and to say that we in the Catholic blogosphere need to become more aggressive, more ready to quarrel, more ready to set aside not only blogger’s friendships, but real ones.

I am fed up with sensitive pansies. They are those who led us where we are now, repeating their stupid slogans as heathenism advances in the middle of a civilisation now too busy with burping to do some sane thinking.

I am always proud, proud when my stats page (they have the links of those linking to you) reports me the insults hurled at me from other blogs, or fora. You see who is insulting you, and you know it is, literally, reward for a job well done.

I intend to be insulted far more come October.

You choose peace if you want to, and you will, no doubt, have the reward of being talked about by the word as the sensitive, moderate, sensible guy.

I, for myself, will pick up the sword.

Mundabor was talking about a theological fight coming within the Catholic church. He might find that there is a bigger fight without than within. And he might find that the believers will be covering each other’s back, because the danger from the liberal wimps within the church and the fanatics without force us to band together.