Muslim reaction to "Sexy Money Joke"

About a week ago we received an internet joke about new "sexy Canadian money". The writeup that accompanied the illustrations, which were professionally produced, read as follows.

"Darned clever, these Canadians !

Perhaps America and Europe should consider changing their currencies too.

Due to the global war on terrorism, many terrorist organizations have had their finances frozen. Consequently, they have resorted to counterfeiting.

The Canadians have decided to redesign their currency to prevent the radical Muslims from even touching it! It is also hoped that this will l have a positive effect on tourism:"

At first glance we thought it funny. But then we realized that the joke was rotten to the core. It continued:

"Muslim terrorists have to kill themselves if they see a naked woman. Those Canadians always find the solution! Must be the pure water up there in the North...."

So in order to get a reliable Muslim perspective on the issue, we forwarded the "Canadian Currency Joke" to our Istanbul associate, a young member of our family that was born and raised in the USA and graduated from Berkeley with a philosophy major. In his senior year he wrote us that he had converted to Muslim and was moving to Istanbul.

There he took an assignment at a leading English language newspaper, fell in love with a co-writer and was married in a Muslim ceremony. We felt that if anybody would have a well reasoned analysis of the "sexy money joke" it would be this young gentlemen. What follows is his response with a watermark of the "money" in the background.

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