Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson said that Muslim refugees shouldn't be allowed into the United States because they've “imbibed” the “despoti[c]” nature of Islam and “would have no clue coming to this culture about the virtues of self-government.”

On the September 16 edition of his WHO Radio show, Mickelson relayed a “parable” about a fictional Baptist church in Pennsylvania whose congregation changed over time, increased its “diversity of thought,” and ultimately -- when the newer congregants outnumbered the older ones -- adopted positions different from those of the “founding members.” Mickelson warned, “That's what democracy looks like” and referenced Thomas Jefferson to argue that allowing Muslim refugees into the country would be bad for America because they “would have no clue coming to this culture about the virtues of self-government”:

MICKELSON: We have not been listening to the warnings of Jefferson. If ever there was a population that is (sic) imbibed the philosophy of despotism, it is people from -- who've imbibed Islam from the moment of their birth, who would have no clue coming to this culture about the virtues of self-government and the disciplines that come along with it.

Mickelson has been heavily criticized recently for proposing an immigration plan that would make undocumented immigrants who don't leave Iowa "property of the state" and for saying Supreme Court Justices Kagan and Ginsburg should have recused themselves from this year's landmark marriage equality case because they're "liberal Jews." Most recently, he mocked the "magical thinking" of Jewish groups in America who are trying to help Syrian refugees resettle here.