Member of the Dutch Parliament Geert Wilders was the keynote speaker at the Garland Texas celebration of free speech that ended up with two dead jihadists who attacked the gathering.

He appeared with Sean Hannity on Tuesday to discuss his plans to hold a similar exhibition of art in the Netherlands.

WILDERS: I’m certainly not anti-Muslim but indeed I believe that Islam is a threat to our civilization. I believe that our country was based on values that are based on Christianity and Judaism, and that Islam really is a threat to our freedom. . . HANNITY: This all started with the Danish cartoon event. Why is it that people get so offended over a cartoon? Why is this happening? WILDERS: Because for more than one billion Muslims, 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, Mohammed is a kind of role model, he’s an example. And that’s why every time somebody depicts or mocks Mohammed, Muslims get angry And my point is exactly this is part of the problem. . . Mohammed as a matter of fact, was a terrorist, was a warmonger. He beheaded Jewish tribes and he was one of the guys who participated. I believe that if Muhammad would be alive today, he would be tried and convicted of terrorism. . . If our reaction is that we should not make more cartoons or not accept them, the terrorists will win. So we have to give them a signal that terrorism does not win. We will not be intimidated.

Below, an armed SWAT team was necessary to protect people at an art exhibition in America.

Geert Wilders posed with the security team at the Garland Texas event.

The fact that a cartoon exhibition now requires serious security is a sign of how much Muslim immigration has diminished our First Amendment freedoms. Victor Davis Hanson recently observed about the reaction of the establishment toward the event, “Apparently there is no longer a First Amendment as our Founders wrote it, but instead something like an Orwellian Amendment 1.5, which reads: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press — except if someone finds some speech hurtful, controversial, or not helpful.’ ”

Wilders is undeterred by threats. GatesOfVienna carried a translation of a Dutch article explaining his intention to “push the pedal” for free speech.