[muawiyah]

The Koran certainly "coopts" lots of stuff. In fact, it is believed by researchers in the West that it began as a manual for use by Christian missionaries to use in Mecca to bring Arabs to Jesus.

That has nothing whatsoever to do with what we find in Jonah, and in this case it's the Bible that is reflecting a far older story otherwise found only in the most ancient of Hindu texts, and as background for Buddhism.

[GSHastings]

In fact, it is believed by researchers in the West that it began as a manual for use by Christian missionaries to use in Mecca to bring Arabs to Jesus.

Well of course! That explains it!

Christians really ARE the source of every evil in the world!