A central figure in the anti-Islam street movement the United Patriots Front is a self-described "biblical crusader" with a long history of posting videos to social media in which he poses with semi-automatic weapons and threatens to take up arms against the Government and Muslims.

Chris Shortis, from Victoria, is one of three spokespeople in the United Patriots Front's leadership team, and has spoken at recent rallies in Bendigo, Richmond, and CBD.

But his online statements are similar to those of far-right Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.

Mr Shortis claims that Islam is a "demonic religion", says the Port Arthur massacre was a "wicked ploy" by the government to disarm gun owners, and outlines an apocalyptic vision in which the United Nations is attempting install the Pope as leader of a new world government. "Patriots," he claims, will be forced to take up arms and fight against the government and Muslims.