I came back from the Land of Smiles last Sunday.
Managed to look at some of the replies and my contributions are as follows:
1) To Loki:
i) I am not asking for more proof. I am asking for just ONE proof that you failed to provide. I have already provided some guidelines, like quoting some 'modern scriptural studies' (to quote what you wrote), historical evidence, carbon dating (also your favourite but unfulfilled fantasy). You have not given the readers here any of those.
ii) Where do you get the definition of 'plagiarism'? From the dictionary of Loki? That definition is more like 'copying' rather than 'plagiarism'.
iii) I wrote once that Loki was careless in his arguments. History repeats itself. Where do you get the idea that "Mecca and Medina was infested with heretic christians (banned to the arabian pensulina by the catholic church)." There could be some Christians at Medina but 'infested' with heretic Christians? hmm...
iv) Loki wrote:
the apocryphal gospel is probably written by another dialect and maybe a much older one then the qurash tribe knew to their day... neither does that change anything, the arabic gospel is only a arabic version of coptic and syriac infancy gospels
Really? I did not see that in Tisdall or the Catholic Encyl. Where do you get that idea?
v) So Loki thinks he knows which sources the Prophet could have got his sources from but Loki cannot prove from whom he got the source. OK. Where then is the proof? You may look again at para (i).
vi) Loki wrote further:
and thirdly alltough we can't proof for certain their is a large list of suspects who could of fitteth that picture... that alone (a list of people who knew judeo-christian gospels and knowledge) is an argument that muhammed was surrounded with people who had knowledge about 'the people of the book'
Two things:
a) You can either proof or you can't proof. Your statement of 'can;t proof for certain' is another term for 'speculation'.
b) Can you pls quote me from the hadith or other reliable books which says that "muhammed was
surrounded with people who had knowledge about 'the people of the book' "
vii) My apologies. I do not have the time to reply on the Jewish 'borrowing'.
salam