I've had two fatwas issued against me by despot mullahs opposed to education - and important to know that the great majority of Imams and Islamic religious leaders support education for all children.

A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism, gender discrimination, and geographical isolation. The cost to educate a child in the third world is about $ 1 per month per child. To achieve global literacy, the investment would be $ 8 billion per year for 15 years.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.