And just what does it mean to "cull" overpopulated deer herds

To the editor,

I am responding to Bob Meade’s letter on March 18, in which he, like three other writers, did not answer my question. However, I predicted this would happen. All I wanted to know is what “culling” means as it applies to Muslims who overbreed.

Russ Wiles sidestepped the question by saying “we had better cull radical Islam now before it is too late”. He never said what “cull” meant and he neglected the fact that Steyn, in his book, America Alone, was not referring to radical Muslims but all Muslims. So instead of answering my question directly, all I got for answers from these writers were obfuscation and circumlocution.

Bob Meade talked about how many pages Steyn’s book is and that Steyn had a message that I missed because I focused too much on the word, “cull”. What Steyn did was to define the problem and suggest the solution. That message was loud and clear. I’ll bet Bob knows what those two little words meant some decades ago – “final solution”. Should we have not attended to those words because of the value of what was thought to be a greater message? Steyn said that the Serbs figured out what to do with the increasing population of Muslims and everyone know what that was and why there was a war crimes trial that addressed it at the Hague.

What does it mean to “cull” overpopulated deer herds? I wonder what Bob would say if someone wanted to “cull” Christians or Jews or Americans. If “cull” doesn’t mean kill, does it mean forced sterilization, forced abortion, sending Muslims to another planet or setting up concentration camps like those that imprisoned Japanese Americans during World War II? Does it mean sending Muslims to special schools where their language, culture and religion are systematically extinguished as the U.S. did to Native American Indians? I ask again, what does “cull” mean? I’m so glad that Bob and others don’t teach because students would never get a straight answer out of any of them.

Leo R. Sandy

New Hampton