With that said, there is at least a tiny bit of corroboration for this story. The article itself also appeared at http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hopsicker043002/hopsicker043002.html (on April 24, 2002).
Also, the e-mail address paradisehasaprice@hotmail.com does apparently exist; see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybermuslims/message/1052, a Yahoo Groups posting from Nov. 12, 2001.