Similarly, this majoritarian liberalism is quick to cast doubt on the secular credentials of someone like Shehla Rashid or Umar Khalid, as soon as they start talking of their Islamic faith, but Rahul Gandhi proudly claiming to be a “janeudhari Hindu” is defended not only in terms of strategy, but also in terms of principle. Secular Hindus, after all, can wear their religion on their sleeves, but secular Muslims must confine their religion to their private sphere. If straight people policed the boundaries of the expression of homosexuality of LGBTQ people, or if men policed the boundaries of the expression of femininity of women, it would unambiguously be labelled as homophobia and misogyny, respectively. But this policing of the boundaries of the Islamic faith of Muslims by liberal Hindus, in the name of secular gatekeeping, is tolerated even in progressive circles, without being called out for the Islamophobia it undoubtedly represents.