Introducing Islam To non-Muslims

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 StephenC wrote:

 Andalus wrote:

 StephenC wrote:

Andulas
"You have already been warned about making claims without evidence or backing them up. Please back up your remarks."
Where is the evidence for your LIST?

This is an Islamic forum. I am not required to provide evidence for every single point about my religion that I discuss. If this forum was about your mother, or parents, I would be an idiot to expect you to provide evidence that they were really your paretns everytime you discussed them. 
If you want to discuss Islam, and if you make a claim against it, or a claim that runs contrary to our beliefs, then you are required to back it up. It is that simple, and it is not beyond being reasonable.

Is that your way of saying that there is no proof?

No, it is my way of saying that your requests are absurd and unreasonable. Pay attention.

I have posted claims with cites from this very website (www.islamicity.com).  Not from any anti-islamic site.
I will restate my claims.
The only publicly known oldest copy of the Quran was written 200-300 years after the death of Muhammad.  "This eighth century manuscript from Mecca or Medina is one of the two oldest known existing copies of the Quran." History of Islam www.islamicity.com
Do you dispute this?

No, but you have been replied to about the conclusion you drew from it. And you have not been able to really respond to the points given to you, but only trying to nit pick about trival nuances. 
I have replied to your claim, and we are back full circle. This is your usual game.

Muhammad preached to slaves and the poor.  History of Islam www.islamicity.com Do you dispute this?

non sequitur.
This has already been addressed. 

The Quran was not compiled until years after the death of Muhammad.  It was commissioned by Uthman who formed a committee to sort out what would and would not be in the Quran.  
"Of much greater importance to Islam, however, was 'Uthman's compilation of the text of the Quran as revealed to the Prophet. Realizing that the original message from God might be inadvertently distorted by textual variants, he appointed a committee to collect the canonical verses and destroy the variant recensions." 
"With great difficulty, the task was carried out and the first complete manuscript compiled from "bits of parchment, thin white stones - ostracae - leafless palm branches, and the memories of men."
Both from History of Islam www.islamicity.com 
Now what of my claims are not true?  I am not asking what is the relevance.  Just what is not true.

You are now building a strawman. I have never argued that your sources were untrue, but your logic and conclusion you drew from them, and I added in things you left out.
And nothing you quoted above is your own, I addressed YOUR CONLUSIONS. 
Nice attempt at a strawman!

Should not a person be fully informed of Islam so they can make educated decisions?

You leave out those things that do not work for your theories, and you never directly debate the points given to you when someone calls you on your innaccuracies.