It is contentious and stressful.
"If it's contentious or arguable that Sex Garage was Montreal's official Stonewall, it was my Stonewall.
It's a contentious issue, and frankly, it's contentious every time.
This is contentious ground, if only because the qualifier "Islamic," when applied to many broad concepts — democracy, for example — often elicits the charge, "cultural relativist".
If the proper pastry is contentious, then the best way to fill it is an even stickier subject.
Yes, those were his exact words; it would have been contentious enough if he had merely stated that Orthodoxy and Islam were a closer pair (or less far apart) than Catholicism and Islam, but from the videotape (in Russian), it's clear that he is making an even bolder claim.
If the relationship is contentious— well, you know where the door is.
In a public sphere marked by disengagement and self-promotion, conflicts signal that something is important enough for people to make the effort to engage, even if that engagement is contentious.
