Shalom! Happy Hanukkah! I hope everyone finds 2018 be a happy and prosperous year.Wolverine wrote:It's a good time to remember Hanukkah celebrates a rebellion against foreign occupiers of Jerusalem and the re-consecration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, 160 years before Jesus Christ was born, and 730 years before Mohamed. In light of that, no pun intended, how can it be controversial for Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?
To answer your question, Jerusalem is claimed by Muslims, Christians and Jews as a city of very important religious significance. The city is also the capital of the secular Israeli government. The USA's previous foreign policy on the city was to not acknowledge it as the capital of the Israeli government to appease the various religious stakeholders. Trump has upset these religious stakeholders by stating the obvious that the city is the capital of the secular Israeli government. Thus the tension between the religion and secularity.
Unfortunately, the Muslim extremists that lack rational thought give Trump's pronouncement of the obvious from a secular perspective way too much importance and consider it the a horrible insult that is worthy of death and violence.
Most of the time a watermelon is just a good tasting fruit. Unfortunately, SJWs will always claim watermelons are racist no matter what and if to a starving person.