A sister of the terrorist who murdered a French policewoman and four men in a kosher market in Paris is more Miley Cyrus than martyr for Muhammad.
Maimouna Coulibaly, 39, is a choreographer best known for her dance lessons and as the creator of a show designed to combat racism in France, The Times of London reported Wednesday.
“I think I can help people who are … too introverted, who don’t dare to do things, who are frustrated, I think I can help them to liberate themselves and let themselves go just by moving their bottoms,” she says in a video posted on YouTube.
Amedy Coulibaly poses with guns in a video.APWhile her ISIS-loving younger brother, Amedy Coulibaly, 34, turned to drug-dealing and later radical Islam, his sister was pursuing a career in showbiz and specialized in “twerking,” the booty-shaking dance popularized by hip-hop artists that is a staple of French TV, including the hit show “France Has Incredible Talent.”
She also gives lessons in what she calls “Booty Therapy” — with a 20-session course going for 300 euros, a little over $350.
Coulibaly is perhaps best known for “Heee Mariamou,” the dance show she created, which is based on her own experience growing up in Grigny, an impoverished Paris suburb.
On her website, she said the show drew upon all the “frustrations, the insults I suffered in my youth, the racism, the prejudice towards my mother and myself.”
The show ran in a small theater near Grigny in southern Paris in 1999 before it was brought to a wider audience in 2005 after then-President Nicolas Sarkozy denounced the “hoodlums” who he said were to blame for a crime wave in the French suburbs.
“I was very affected by that,” she wrote.
“Heee Mariamou” has since played in Paris and even San Francisco.
“This is a show to highlight the humanity we all have in us, whether we are black, white, North African, Asian, old, young, ugly or beautiful,” Coulibaly said.
Her brother — whose father, Mahmadou, and mother, Diawe, came to France from Mali — spent his childhood on the notorious Grande Borne housing estate in Grigny.
In 2002, he was given a six-year sentence for robbing a bank, and it was in prison that he reportedly fell under the influence of Islamic radicals.
In a statement, his mother and sisters said that they “condemned” his acts of terrorism, adding: “We absolutely do not share his extremist ideas. We hope there will be no confusing these odious acts with the Muslim religion,” The Times reported.
