There were no signs of outrage or unrest, the day after Wilders announced his plan to use airtime granted to political parties to show cartoons from a contest in Texas last month that was targeted by two armed attackers. Wilders spoke at the contest in Garland, but left before the foiled attack in which both gunmen were shot dead.
Islamic tradition holds that any physical depiction of the Prophet Muhammad is blasphemous. It appears, however, that Muslims in the Netherlands may be growing accustomed to Wilders' fierce criticism of their faith.
Wilders rose to national and international prominence after the brutal murder in 2004 of another Dutch critic of Islam, filmmaker Theo van Gogh, by a Muslim extremist. Wilders established and leads the Freedom Party that holds 12 of the 150 seats in parliament's lower house.
Wilders' anti-Islam rhetoric has in the past sparked outrage around the Muslim world and prompted death threats that have led to him living under round-the-clock protection.
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"He only wants to be in the news, and every time he goes a step further in his attempts to be provocative," he said. Yassin Elforkani, spokesman of the Contact Group for Muslims and Government, agreed that people are growing accustomed to Wilders.
"It is provocation from Mr Wilders that we have been used to for years," Elforkani said in a telephone interview.
Wilders denied he was being provocative for the sake of it and said in an emailed reaction that he wants to show the cartoons to support freedom of expressions and demonstrate to extremists that their violence won't silence him.