Yeah I’m aware of all of those particulars - but they are beside the point and not worth arguing over.
well, I don’t see them as “arguing points” unless one is a Muslim.
But since you and I are not, this is interesting as:
1. Many people (anti-Christians, Christians and others) just thought that Islam had “arisen in the light of history” while Christianity did not
—> this is false - the earliest gospels date to within decades after Jesus and we have multiple copies across great geographies which tell us that it was not distorted
—> Islam in contrast gets written down only 150 years after M’s alleged death - that should give pause for thought
2. If M didn’t exist, that is an utterly different spin on how Islam arose, what it is about and truly speaking, how to end it