Abbott compares Islamic State militants with Nazis, says Australia is ‘utterly committed’ to campaign against the ‘death cult’

The Islamic State is worse than the Nazis during World War II, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said.

Abbott compared ISIS with the Nazis in terms of bragging about an evil act. He said even though the Nazis had done “terrible evil,” they had “sufficient sense of shame” to make an effort to hide it. However, the extraordinary thing about ISIS terrorists is that they boast about their evil, he said.

“They act in the way medieval barbarians acted only they broadcast it to the world with an effrontery that is hard to credit and it just adds a further dimension to this evil,” Abbott said on Sydney radio station 2GB.

He referred to the latest reported incident where four young men had been strung up and burned alive. “I don’t think there’s any great secret that this is a government that is utterly committed to the campaign against the Daesh death cult,” Abbott said using a pejorative term for ISIS. He called the organization as “unspeakable evil.”

Former U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, said at the 2015 Lowy Institute lecture on Wednesday that airstrikes on ISIS in Syria would strengthen the coalition’s efforts, raising the possibility of Australia joining the Syria airstrikes.

Abbott said he was waiting for Defence Minister Kevin Andrews to return Australia next week. He said the decision of Australia joining the coalition in the Syria airstrikes would be finalised after Andrews’ return.

“The Defence Minister has been out of the country for the last 10 days or so, having important talks with our partners and allies and I didn’t want this decision to be made in his absence,” Abbott said.

Andrews is presently in India where he invited the Asian country to take part in two major military engagements, one each with the army and the air force, the Economic Times reported.

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