text: In her article Ms. Aziz begins with the words "Let's talk", but talk is far more than one-sided statements of the obvious. I think that there is a consensus that reaction to the recent attacks by Muslims has created a wave of counterattacks from non-Muslims. Misguided, ill-intentioned or even evil, they are wholly to be expected. It is where we stand when we reflect upon these actions that makes all the difference. Yes, we do - really - need to talk. But we have to look at the problem from more than just the events of the last month or so. We must speak clearly and in context with the realities of both the west and east, Christian and Muslim, Sunni and Shiite: all of the Us'es and all of the Thems. 
  It is absolutely true that these things do not occur in a vacuum. They expand, breath after breath, one shout following another, until the outward force moves at the speed of an explosion.