The person posting all of this garbage about me is named Lawrence Estavan. He works for someone named "Pamela Geller". If you do not know who she is, Google her.
Estavan is a writer for her very popular blog, Atlas Shrugs. He is also a moderator for Geller's SIOA, or "Stop the Islamization of America".
Pamela Geller cannot stand me.
I don't know if Geller ordered Estavan to smear me, over the course of many years, using blogs, memes, comments, Facebook pages and YouTube videos. It's quite possible he has done all of this voluntarily, as the man seems to be some sort of fanboy, insanely jealous of anyone whom Robert Spencer or Pamela Geller allow into their inner circle.
For a moment there, years ago, I was in that circle. I was on the radio with Robert Spencer when Larry Estavan called in and absolutely blasted me. The moderator said, "So Larry, I take it you don't like Eric then?" to which Estavan answered, in something of a hysterical tone, "I don't like him!"
Estavan imagined that when Robert Spencer jokingly said we were broadcasting from the Sunset Strip (we were not) and I commented something like, "Oh great, now Al Qeada knows where to find us." Estavan interpreted that somehow as me being very disrespectful to Robert Spencer. And he has been obsessed with trying to discredit me, any way he can, ever since. Note that this was before "the bounty" he keeps referring to, or the "defrauding the Counter Jihad movement" he imagines took place. The smear campaign began before all of that.
I contacted members of the board of SIOA and asked for their help in persuading Pamela Geller to call off her dogs essentially - in other words, to ask her writer (Larry Estavan) to stop publicly attacking me. She refused. Then I wrote to her directly (we used to get along and I used to write for her) and she ignored that. Then I texted her (once) and she said she was blocking me and that if I contact her again, she will call the police. Note, it was Geller who had originally given me her cel number, as she had mentored me in dealing with a media situation, concerning a mega mosque in 2012.
Pamela Geller also created a headline on her blog in 2012 stating that I was the victim of a "Fatwa" (also the name of her new book "Fatwa"). I texted her to please take that down, I was the victim of death threats but not a formal "Fatwa" and didn't want devout Muslims to think they were ordered, officially by an Islamic cleric, to kill me. I realize it makes for major click bait, but it was not true and Geller changed the title of that blog and later took it down all together.
So, is Larry Estavan the long arm of Pamela Geller? I don't know. But he works for her and she is aware of his hundreds of smear posts against me online and is unwilling to ask him to stop, regardless of how this reflects negatively on SIOA and regardless of SIOA board members asking her to make Estavan stop.
You decide.
Estavan is a writer for her very popular blog, Atlas Shrugs. He is also a moderator for Geller's SIOA, or "Stop the Islamization of America".
Pamela Geller cannot stand me.
I don't know if Geller ordered Estavan to smear me, over the course of many years, using blogs, memes, comments, Facebook pages and YouTube videos. It's quite possible he has done all of this voluntarily, as the man seems to be some sort of fanboy, insanely jealous of anyone whom Robert Spencer or Pamela Geller allow into their inner circle.
For a moment there, years ago, I was in that circle. I was on the radio with Robert Spencer when Larry Estavan called in and absolutely blasted me. The moderator said, "So Larry, I take it you don't like Eric then?" to which Estavan answered, in something of a hysterical tone, "I don't like him!"
Estavan imagined that when Robert Spencer jokingly said we were broadcasting from the Sunset Strip (we were not) and I commented something like, "Oh great, now Al Qeada knows where to find us." Estavan interpreted that somehow as me being very disrespectful to Robert Spencer. And he has been obsessed with trying to discredit me, any way he can, ever since. Note that this was before "the bounty" he keeps referring to, or the "defrauding the Counter Jihad movement" he imagines took place. The smear campaign began before all of that.
I contacted members of the board of SIOA and asked for their help in persuading Pamela Geller to call off her dogs essentially - in other words, to ask her writer (Larry Estavan) to stop publicly attacking me. She refused. Then I wrote to her directly (we used to get along and I used to write for her) and she ignored that. Then I texted her (once) and she said she was blocking me and that if I contact her again, she will call the police. Note, it was Geller who had originally given me her cel number, as she had mentored me in dealing with a media situation, concerning a mega mosque in 2012.
Pamela Geller also created a headline on her blog in 2012 stating that I was the victim of a "Fatwa" (also the name of her new book "Fatwa"). I texted her to please take that down, I was the victim of death threats but not a formal "Fatwa" and didn't want devout Muslims to think they were ordered, officially by an Islamic cleric, to kill me. I realize it makes for major click bait, but it was not true and Geller changed the title of that blog and later took it down all together.
So, is Larry Estavan the long arm of Pamela Geller? I don't know. But he works for her and she is aware of his hundreds of smear posts against me online and is unwilling to ask him to stop, regardless of how this reflects negatively on SIOA and regardless of SIOA board members asking her to make Estavan stop.
You decide.