Global banking partly to blame

Reading Lloyd Carter's letter of March 8 regarding "Eurabia" was very interesting. I investigated Carter's lead regarding information on "Eurabia" and discovered that Islamic faithful are being asked to stop using world currencies and start using gold dinars.

We have a number of similar movements here in the United States. "Gold Bugs" are all over the Internet calling for "honest money."

There is also a movement based on a seminar called "Where would Jesus bank." The author, Catherine Austin Fitts, served as assistant secretary of housing/federal housing commissioner at HUD in the first Bush administration. Fitts advises people to move their money out of what she calls the "tapeworm banks." She recommends community-based banks in order to keep our money working for us at home.

World-renowned activist, MIT scholar Noam Chomsky confirms the economic wrongs that have been perpetrated around the world in our name via central banks. In other words, "Eurabia" has validity.

Chomsky points to a 1958 cabinet meeting held by President Eisenhower in which Eisenhower addresses the problem of the hate people of the Middle East have for Americans. Eisenhower's intelligence reports revealed that the people of the Middle East perceive us to be responsible for supporting and maintaining corrupt regimes that are destroying the welfare of the people in their countries.

Eisenhower was advised that there was not much that could be done to stem this hate because the perception was true.

American economic interests were being served by the corrupt regimes we keep in place in the Middle East, and they still are to this day except in Iraq, which we just took out, and Iran, which threw us out.

If ideology is at the heart of the war in Iraq, not oil, as Carter's letter wants us to think, then we need to ask what ideology we support exactly? In the face of injustice, we are all on the same side. Injustice cannot be "warred' away. Killing those who hate us for our unjust behavior will not make us right. Mary T. Ficalora Agoura Hills