I have been tardy posting the details but Blazing Cat Fur has picked up the slack.

I will post more as we get closer to the events but amazing people and events are coming to Ottawa, Toronto and other Canadian locales thank to two organizations. The Canadian Free Press Society, a branch of the International Free Press Society, and Free Thinking Films Society which has brought in amazing speakers like Bruce Bawer, Bat Ye’or, Sam Solomon and other fantastic people who otherwise would never have been heard in Canada.

The upcoming events will be detailed soon, but for the moment please click over to BCF and have a look at the poster and details for Lars Vilks, the cartoonist who drew the Mohamed-as-a-round-house-dog toon which earned him several thousand death threats, 2 actual murder attempts and an arson attack on his home.

Good thing Mel Blanc is already dead. He would be the Islamic worlds ‘most wanted of all time’ given Islam’s penchant for hunting cartoonists who Mock Islamic culture.

In any case, it is really important that groups like IFPS and FTF are supported. These are staffed by people who take risk and effort to try and expose Canadians to the facts of Islam in the west and leftism’s collusion with what is, ironically, the most conservative group in the world today.

For everyone who hates and mocks conservatives for their projected desire to keep women barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen, they should talk to a Muslim for a while about exactly what women’s roles should be, and are in most of the Islamic world.

In any case, please do click over to Blazing and check the details. This event and the ones coming really matter. It is time for the shoe leather to meet the sidewalk. Show your support. Come to an event. Bring a freind who isn’t certain about any of this stuff yet. Buy a book from the authors. Look at it this way. Someday, these books will either get you killed from the new sharia overlords, or they will be prized possessions like a book signed by Churchill himself.

I hope to meet lots of you there if you go.

Eeyore for Vlad.

****    UPDATE    **** From the Toronto Sun (H/T Snaphanen.DK)

OTTAWA — Half the North American dates for a Swedish free speech activist have been cancelled following poor ticket sales and heavy security concerns.

Lars Vilks, who invited controversy in 2007 when he published a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed with a human torso and a dog’s rear end, was scheduled to speak in Philadelphia, Ottawa, Toronto and Boston.

“The amount of money would have to spend to ensure security in Ottawa, and the number of registrations, did not justify the expense,” said Mary Lou Ambrogio, a vice-president with the International Free Press Society.

The Philadelphia event was also cancelled after the Department of Homeland Security declared him a security risk.

“It appears that Mr. Vilks is considered a very high security threat by U.S. law enforcement, and it was decided that they would cancel because they could not secure the event to everyone’s liking,” Ambrogio said.

“It is becoming increasingly difficult to host these events.”

Ambrogio was part of the tour that brought American commentator Ann Coulter to Canada last spring. The Ottawa stop on that tour was also cancelled, after a rowdy crowd showed up at the event and police told organizers that security could not be guaranteed if the event proceeded as planned.

Ottawa Police said that, while they were aware of Vilk’s planned event, they were not involved in its cancellation.

Vilks’ cartoon was originally published in a Swedish newspaper to illustrate the censorship many media outlets impose on themselves when it comes to religious issues. The cartoon is separate, though, from the 2006 controversy involving a Danish newspaper.

Following the cartoon’s publication, Vilks became the target of an international plot involving a Philadelphia woman named Coleen LaRose, also known as Jihad Jane, who was arrested last March and now faces conspiracy charges.

The event scheduled for Sunday at Toronto’s Zionist Centre will still go ahead.