""I would start interacting with him almost every day at the madrasa. He would tell me about the jihad, and hand over booklets glorifying mujahideen's victories against infidels. Slowly and gradually, I got sucked into it and started believing that the biggest aim in life is jihad. Now I realize that it was wrong."

A Pakistani teenager recounts the lessons in Allah, death and servitude (lessons that groomed him to become a human bomb) he learned at a Pakistan madrassah. (Wasn't it Dorothy Parker who famously quipped that "Girls seldom make passes at boys in madrassahs"?)