You have to admire the Abbott Government’s chutzpah.

Islamic State released a statement calling on believers to kill, among others, Australians. On the 7.30 Report Attorney-General George Brandis explained that they hate us for our democracy, our freedoms, our respect for women.

The nationalities Islamic State named were Americans or Europeans – especially the accursed French – or Australians or Canadians.

Why is that Senator Brandis? Could it be perhaps because these nations are the ones re-invading Iraq?

Maybe they hate us Senator Brandis because the last time we invaded, in 2003, about 1.5 million Iraqis died as a result? The number continues to rise. Maybe they hate us because the puppet regime we imposed on them was a sectarian Shia dictatorship over Sunnis? Maybe they hate us because we are invading them again. And killing women and children. Again.

And maybe, just maybe, they hate us because when Israel slaughtered 2000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, last month, the Australian government cheered ‘our’ mass murderers on. Maybe they hate us because we support the West’s attack dog in the Middle East and the genocide of Palestinians it is carrying out and has been carrying out since before 1948?

Why do they really hate us Senator Brandis?