Muslim bloodlust roundup for Sunday, September 30, 2012

Afghan inside attack kills 2 Americans, 2 Afghans, marking 2,000 US troop deaths:

(AP) An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops at a checkpoint in the country's east, killing two Americans and at least two fellow members of Afghanistan's army in a shooting that marked both the continuance of a disturbing trend of insider attacks and the 2,000th U.S. troop death in the long-running war, officials said Sunday.

String of Iraq car bomb blasts kill at least 32:

BAGDAD (Reuters) — Coordinated bomb attacks killed more than 32 people across Iraq on Sunday, the latest violence in an insurgency the government has failed to quell more than nine months after the last U.S. troops withdrew.

Muslims torch Buddhist temples, homes in Bangladesh:

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AFP) — Thousands of rioters torched Buddhist temples and homes in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday over a photo posted on Facebook deemed offensive to Islam, in a rare attack against the community.

Kenya: Muslims kill a child in church grenade attack, shoot dead 2 policemen near Somalia border:

GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) — Two police officers were shot dead in Kenya on Sunday in the northern town of Garissa close to the border with Somalia, police said, hours after a child was killed in a grenade attack on a church in Nairobi.

Bomb explodes near Islamic school in Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen detonated a bomb Sunday near an Islamic boarding school in northern Nigeria and later exchanged gunfire with security forces, causing unknown casualties in the region's latest round of violence, officials said.

Grenade Attack on Fair in Thailand Wounds 30:

PATTANI, Thailand (AP) — Thai police believe Islamist insurgents fired grenades at a fair in southern Thailand, injuring 30 people, in anger over government efforts to win over local Muslim religious leaders.

Suicide car bomber kills 4 in Syria:

DAMASCUS (AFP) — A suicide car bombing in Qamishli, a Kurdish city in northern Syria, killed at least four people Sunday, state television reported, but a human rights group said that eight members of the security forces died in the blast.