If 40% of American Muslims support marriage equality and LGBT rights, wouldn't that mean that a whopping 60% of American Muslims either oppose or simply don't care about LGBT rights? That sounds like exactly the opposite of the picture you're trying to paint with that statistic.

I'd say that this march must have something to do with that or no one would consider it controversial. It may be that they're using the march as a sort of argument against Muslim immigrants, but if the argument didn't have any legitimacy there wouldn't be a story here.

I mean either this neighborhood isn't a particularly homophobic community, in which case the result is no different from having a pride march anywhere else, or it is a particularly homophobic community, in which case there's legitimately an issue to be addressed here. It seems to me that for the counter-protestors to take issue with this they must think it will paint the community in a bad light, right?

The truth of the matter, I'd say, is that while what it's about may reflect poorly on its organizers, how it's dealt with will reflect on that neighborhood. If I lived in that neighborhood and I didn't want to be portrayed as homophobic I think I'd be more likely to try to organize a show of solidarity in support of LGBT rights rather than a protest insisting that it's racist to give my neighbors the opportunity to demonstrate how homophobic they are.

At any rate, it's weird to see people on the left deciding which group of social conservatives they want to align themselves with. Let's call them all out.