PM Tony Abbott speaks to 2GB's Alan Jones about the Islamic State, saying they are behaving like medieval barbarics and are even worse than the Nazis in the way they broadcast their evil.

Tony Abbott says the Islamic State are 'barbaric' and compares them to Nazis

TONY Abbott says the Islamic State terror group is worse than the Nazis during World War II.

The Prime Minister said a decision on whether or not Australia would join air strikes over Syria against the group would be made next week when Defence Minister Kevin Andrews returned from travelling abroad.

Mr Abbott said everything possible needed to be done to defeat the “Daesh death cult”.

“This is a government that is utterly committed to the campaign against the Daesh death cult,” Mr Abbott told 2GB’s Alan Jones.

“The Nazis did terrible evil but they had sufficient sense of shame to try and hide it. These people boast about their evil. This is the extraordinary thing.

“They act in the way medieval barbarians acted only they broadcast it to the world with an affrontery that is hard to credit and it just adds a further dimension to this evil.”

More than six million Jews were killed by Hitler’s Nazi regime and its collaborators from 1941 to 1945 in what is known as the Holocaust.

The Jewish community slammed Mr Abbott’s comments, labelling them “injudicious and unfortunate”.

“Whilst there is no question that Islamic State is a profoundly evil organisation, the Prime Minister’s comments suggesting that it is in some respects worse than the Nazis were injudicious and unfortunate,” Robert Goot, President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, told News Corp Australia.

“The crimes of Islamic State are indeed horrific but cannot be compared to the systematic round-up of millions of people and their despatch to purpose built death camps for mass murder.

“There is a fundamental difference between organised acts of terrorism and a genocide systematically implemented by a state as essential policy.”

Labour MP Michael Dandy, who is Jewish, was equalled upset.

“The Prime Minister does not need to exaggerate the power or criminality of Da’esh to demonstrate its barbarity. However, the comparison with the Nazis doesn’t stand. During WWII, Nazi Germany killed over 20 million civilians, not including millions of soldiers on all sides who were devoured by Hitler’s war machine. There has never been any evil force in world history has powerful as Nazi Germany.

“There may be a legal and strategic case for bombing Da’esh terrorists across the Iraqi border in Syria. It can be made without going over the top as the PM has.”

Later in the day the Prime Minister said he was not in the “business of ranking evil” however stood by his comments.

“Unlike previous people Stalin or Hilter or whoever that tried to cover up their evil, this wretched death cult boasts about it,” Mr Abbott told reporters in Melbourne.

“Every day we see new atrocities broadcast to the world, atrocities of an unspeakable inhumanity, and that’s why it’s absolutely vital that the decent people of the world unite against this death cult and do everything we reasonably can, as quickly as we can to disrupt, degrade and ultimately destroy.

“This is a menace to the world, an absolute menace to the world. It’s a menace to the people of the Middle East, it is a menace to the people of Australia.”

Asked directly if he was walking away from his earlier comments Mr Abbott said: “I stand by I what I said”.

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The United States has asked Australia to extend its campaign in the Middle East to include air strikes over Syria.

Australian Defence Personnel are already conducting air strikes and performing a supporting role for Iraqi troops in the fight against IS.

US President Barack Obama made the request for Australia to extend into Syria in July direct to Tony Abbott.

Australia is seeking legal advice and contemplating its options.

However in a recent briefing on the situation in the Middle East chief of joint operations Vice Admiral David Johnston said Australia joining strikes across the Syrian border would not be a “game changer”.

“The contribution of Australia (for air strikes in Syria) isn’t really a game changer one way or another,” Vice-Admiral Johnston said.