Former Cricketer Khalid Latif sentenced over Dutch MP murder threat
The case was based on a video posted online in 2018, in which Khalid Latif offered 21,000 euros (£18,000) to anyone who would kill the politician.
That was after Mr Wilders made comments about the Prophet Muhammad that were offensive to Muslims.
It is considered unlikely that Latif will serve any of his sentence.
He currently lives in Pakistan, which has no extradition treaty with the Netherlands.
The Dutch authorities have been seeking to question Latif for several years but said they have been given no help from Pakistan.
The court ruled on Monday "it was not a stretch to think that somebody around the world would have taken heed of the call to kill Mr Wilders".
Presiding judge G Verbeek said his comments were not just an attack on Mr Wilders personally but an attack on free speech.
There was no immediate comment from Latif following the ruling.
He posted the video online in 2018 in response to Mr Wilder's announcement that he would hold a competition for caricatures of the Muhammad.
Images of the Prophet are forbidden in Islam as they are considered a form of idolatry and caricatures are considered highly offensive.
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