1. At a bush madrasa, an irritable teacher with a stick beats children struggling to learn Islamic verses drawn with charcoal on flat sections of tree bark.

2. But they all describe the madrasa as an institution that cultivated in them a hatred for American soldiers in Afghanistan.

3. Lots of Talibs in madrasa have joined the fight but that doesn't mean we stopped learning.

4. I was in a madrasa when the Taliban were in government and I only joined them after the American occupation.

4. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

5. One was a government employee and an old madrasa colleague of the Mawlawi Sahib.

6. They were joined by teenage boys who surged in waves from the neighboring Mir-i-Arab Madrasa, a religious school.

7. Witnesses said the compound, which included a guesthouse and a religious seminary, or madrasa, was hit by two missiles, destroying it.

8. "We have mujahideen from the time of the emirate, but we have new fighters too, " Mawlawi Jalali told me. "The young are keen to join, but we tell them stay put, finish your madrasa now and then come.

9. Amanullah explained that he came from a family who ran a small farm. When the Taliban were still in power he joined a local madrasa where he spent 12 years studying the Qur'an and religion.

10. These days, the major platform for revivalist Islam is no longer the madrasa but the web, an area in which Mariam was a specialist and through which she may have been pursuing a secret life.

11. He said his father had sent him to the madrasa to join the good Muslims fighting an occupation of the infidels.

12. Inside, the compound consisted of a big yard with two rooms built off it. The larger room doubled as a mosque and a madrasa.