Are there any objective sources corroborating this information? Not to doubt you, but the only place I've ever seen this is from this GeoCities site that you point to, and without attribution.
Here is another link to a similiar story from http://www.aslamt.com/pstories/11.html
Source : al-Mujallah.
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There I happened to meet some children and had a light chitchat with them. I put certain questions to them and they flung at me their innocent queries. ~snip~ Then they started telling me about Islam. They were giving me information, much in piece with their age. The pitch of their voice would reveal that they were highly proud of Islam. This is how I paced toward Islam.
The whole article is pretty interesting. He has a very strange pov, according to the article.