Some back story: This all came up because of some rumor that Christopher Hitchens had claimed to possess a Gideons Qur’an. So I asked them directly (among other things) whether such a book even exists. It does not.
As far as the question about the Qur’an, the Bibles that are placed by the Gideons in Pakistan are in the Urdu language which is based off the Persian-Arabic script.
Digging further, I discovered an email address for Mr. Hitchens, and emailed him on Feb 5, 2010:
I’m hearing second hand that you’ve said you have a “Gideons Qur’an” that you picked up in a hotel in Pakistan. Can you confirm this?
Babe, new Gideons lore just dropped!
Some back story: This all came up because of some rumor that Christopher Hitchens had claimed to possess a Gideons Qur’an. So I asked them directly (among other things) whether such a book even exists. It does not.
Digging further, I discovered an email address for Mr. Hitchens, and emailed him on Feb 5, 2010:
He replied the same day: