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Dutch right-wing politician and staunch critic of Islamic religion, Geert Wilders spoke at at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver last weekend issuing his usual warning that Europe and the United States are at risk of being taken over by the Islam religion — a religion that Wilders has said is not really a religion, but an “ideology of a retarded culture,” according to The Guardian.

At the Summit, Wilders also repeated his point of view that he has nothing against Muslims, that he understands that there are “many moderate Muslims,” it’s just Islam that he’s got a problem with. “I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology,” Wilders told The Guardian in 2008, “Not with Muslim people.”

Wilders may think there are some moderate Muslims, but that does not change his position on their mosques — Wilders thinks that the construction of new mosques ought to be banned in the West. A position he has held for some time and one that he repeated at the Western Conservative Summit.

The reaction to Wilders was mixed, according to the Colorado Statesman, but State Sen. Kevin Grantham (R-Canon City) appeared to agree with the radical European politician.

Although Grantham told the Colorado Statesman that he agrees with Wilders that there are some Muslims that “we would call moderate,” Grantham maintained that the “philosophical underpinnings” of the “culture of Islam” are a problem and even “antithetical to the American way.”