[Beloved Levinite]

Well, it an old article, and the link is dead, however there doesn’t seem to be much doubt that it happened. It was argued on many Catholic forums at the time. These two are the best I can do for right now:

http://www.jimmyakin.org/2006/04/jp2_and_the_qur.html
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=10415

[mnehring]

This is a tiny image, but here is another picture of a Coptic Christian conference that the Pope attended. Notice the bishop dressed identically to the source image above.

...still looking though.. this is the internet after all, everything must be 'fact checked', especially 'common knowledge'.