Ivory Coast: 16 killed in beach resort attack

A bearded gunman approached two children and allegedly spoke in Arabic.

One child knelt and prayed but the other was shot dead.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ivory-coast-attacks-child-shot-by-arabic-speaking-attacker-a6929286.html

The religion of peace (Tm) strikes again

I doubt it; recruits who would have gone to Islamic State would go to local terrorist organisations, and there would be thousands of fighters returning from Islamic State besides.

What the hell has Ivory Coast done to the Muslim World or Muslims at all for that matter?

As if that has ever mattered. They have never sought an excuse, except their warped religious beliefs.

It is essentially a modern day form of imperialism. This is one of many attempts to try and forcefully coerce African people into accepting Wahhabi/Salafi influenced Islam. African governments need to take a stand against this and need to stop Saudi/Qatari money funding these groups and organisations to spread their toxic ideology.

In an ideal world they would resist. Mobilise their army to fight. However in a lot of countries like these, the army is poorly trained, underdeveloped, and I'll equipped. They are often poorly paid and have poor discipline too. This means that any fight back is ineffective. You get that in many countries, Somalia, Nigeria etc. Because of this, extremist groups have room to grow.
Then western countries are criticised for getting involved.

In an ideal world they would resist. Mobilise their army to fight. However in a lot of countries like these, the army is poorly trained, underdeveloped, and I'll equipped. They are often poorly paid and have poor discipline too. This means that any fight back is ineffective. You get that in many countries, Somalia, Nigeria etc. Because of this, extremist groups have room to grow.
Then western countries are criticised for getting involved.

Honestly I think Nigeria has done better at fighting BH than anyone expected. All their strongholds aside from their HQ in the Sambisa forest has been taken back and just recently 72+ BH members surrendered due to starvation and said several more extremists are starving and considering surrender.

But still if the military was competent enough this problem would have been nipped in the bud 5 years ago.

My heart is absolutely broken. I couldn't believe it when I heard the news-my family and I have stayed in Grand Bassam so many times. It's hard to imagine what took place there. I am struggling to understand the motivation behind such an attack. The news are placing emphasis on the 5 expats that were killed,and are claiming it was an attack on France,but ignore the other 10 black Ivorians that were also cruelly murdered. I don't get it,I really don't.

It is often the case that whenever such attacks take place, each country puts emphasis on reporting its own citizens deaths. If people from other countries die in the attacks, it is more likely to make prominence in the news abroad. If no foreign people were killed, I imagine it would have received even less attention from international press.

I understand that. What I'm frustrated at is seeing news articles make sweeping claims like "It is France that is being targeted", ignoring the fact that the majority of victims weren't in fact French. To me that's just incredibly disrespectful and insensitive.

It's quite obvious that Western foreigners are in fact the primary targets in these common Islamist attacks on tourist resorts.

Majority of people who are in Grand Bassam are native Ivorians. While the resort is also popular amongst westerners,they are the minority. Were the attackers colour blind when they shot at black Ivorians?
In some attacks like the Tunisian one, I agree it's clear to see that westerners were the primary target.

Were the attackers colour blind when they shot at black Ivorians?

Terrorists like AQ have shown zero care about 'collateral damage' when targeting others (even if they massacre fellow Muslims in the process). They have already pledged to target Western, and especially French, interests in Africa:

"Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest producer of cocoa, has been on high alert since November, when al-Qaeda-linked insurgents stormed into a luxury hotel in Mali and seized hostages. That assault left 22 people dead. The militants pledged to continue targeting French interests and carried out a similar raid in neighboring Burkina Faso in January that left 30 dead, many of them foreigners.

Sunday’s attack is the first by Islamist militants in Ivory Coast, the biggest economy in French-speaking Africa and a country with one of the largest populations of French citizens in the region."

“For the moment the violence has really focused on French-speaking countries with a proximity to Mali, which allows for an easier cross-border flow of small groups of fighters.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-13/ivory-coast-beach-hotel-attack-said-to-leave-two-dead