Discussing worldwide Muslim immigration with callers during his May 14 broadcast, 630 KHOW-AM host Peter Boyles smeared Islamic culture as “corrupt” and agreed with a caller who stated, “That is one culture I do not want to be associated with.” Boyles also misleadingly called Iraq's government “a theocracy.”

Boyles said he sympathized with two heads of state -- “the mayor in Jerusalem,” Uri Lupolianski, and “the new French prime minister,” an apparent reference to newly elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Boyles claimed both were concerned about Muslim immigration eventually leading to a takeover of their respective jurisdictions, stating to a caller, “I don't want it. I don't want a corrupt culture ... if I wanted a religiously based culture -- you know, go back home.”

When another caller said, “Well, I just got back from Iraq not too long ago and I will tell you one thing: That is one culture I do not want to be associated with,” Boyles replied, “No, of course not.” He later added, “But it's called a theocracy.”

According to the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook, Iraq's legal system is “based on European civil and Islamic law under the framework outlined in the Iraqi Constitution.” In contrast, the definition of a theocracy is the “government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided.” Therefore, Iraq is not a theocracy, but rather a "parliamentary democracy" that consists of elected officials who are Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds from at least five different political parties.

Apparently referring to Islamic culture in Iraq, Boyles concluded that “it's insanity that people think that we all can be diverse and love each other, and we can welcome that culture as equal to the culture of this country.”

From the May 14 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM's The Peter Boyles Show:

CALLER: You know, I got cousins over in Ireland and all of them --

BOYLES: They voted against. They said, “That's it.” In Ireland, a week ago Sunday, they had an election; they said you can no longer become the Irish citizen, the automatic Irish citizen. It's over.

CALLER: I'll tell you what gets me mad about Ireland is, like, all them years like through the Black and Tans, and, you know, all the hardships and starving and them guys dying in prison and, and now their economy's up and everybody in the world's running over there.

BOYLES: Right. Well, but it's always the case.

CALLER: Oh, I mean --

BOYLES: But if you see who's showing up in Ireland, it's, it's an offshoot of the same people showing up in France.

CALLER: That's right, they're gonna have the same problem.

BOYLES: But what's interesting is this election of the new French prime minister. One of the very strong planks in his platform is stop the immigration. Stop the -- stop the people from coming here. Because if -- and it's the same story as the mayor in Jerusalem saying, “Look, allow the French to continue as the French have continued, within our lifetime France becomes a Muslim country.”

CALLER: Right, it's gone.

BOYLES: So. And by the way, I know that it's going to considered to be -- I don't want that culture.

CALLER: No.

BOYLES: I'm sorry. I don't want it. I don't want a corrupt culture. I -- if I wanted a religiously based culture -- you know, go back home.

CALLER: That's what I say too.

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CALLER: Hey, good morning. I just want to say I love your show.

BOYLES: You're kind.

CALLER: I just moved up here from Texas and I just love it.

BOYLES: You're kind.

CALLER: I was listening to a gentleman earlier saying, you know, “I don't want to be surrounded with that culture,” and I fully support Israel. Well, I just got back from Iraq not too long ago and I will tell you one thing: That is one culture I do not want to be associated with --

BOYLES: No, of course not.

CALLER: -- whatsoever.

BOYLES: Of course not.

CALLER: I mean, there's a lot of things people in America don't think about, and that's listening to them pray over their loud speakers five times a day. And the women walking behind them. It's just a --

BOYLES: But it's called --

CALLER: -- totally different culture.

BOYLES: But it's called a theocracy.

CALLER: Yes, sir.

BOYLES: I mean, I mean, it's just -- it's, it's, it's insanity that people think that we all can be diverse and love each other, and we can welcome that culture as equal to the culture of this country.

CALLER: Oh, no way. There is no way.