I'm aware of your difference with Ulhas on Kashmir. I wouldn't have said what I said if it had been you who criticized Ahmadinejad on his privileging of monotheism or anything else. I myself might have criticized it in the first place if I hadn't been focused on the Israel/Palestine question in his letter.
The thing is that I don't believe Ulhas cares one way or another about Ahmadinejad (or anyone else's) religious belief or lack thereof. It wouldn't matter to him if Ahmadinejad extolled the virtue of atheism or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster over other beliefs if he were a friend of Washington and/or New Delhi. Ulhas has nothing to say about Bush's religious belief, certainly worse than Ahmadinejad's.
He hates the current government of Iran and its devout leader just as he hates Nepali and Indian Maoists, most of whom are probably atheists.
I might add that the only kind words for Indian leftists that I've heard from Ulhas' postings is that a number of them are very favorably disposed to FDI.
The bottom line: I can't stand anyone who is supposedly on the left _and_ supports sanctioning or bombing Iran at this late date, i.e., having already seen Iraq. Isn't it enough to have destroyed one country?
* Well, maybe Ulhas doesn't claim to be on the left. Perhaps he's just one of those neoliberal Indians, like many others of his education in India and the rest of the world (except France).
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>