He’s been performing all over the world for 15 years. As he says in his latest travel column on Huffington Post, he was booked to perform in Indonesia two weeks after 9/11 when sentiments against Americans and the British were particularly high there.
Muslim radicals were making news in the country attacking Americans and American-owned businesses. You may recall at that time the pervasive images in the news of anti-American sentiment, flag burning, and anti-American protests woven between images of the towers coming down, the posters of the missing, and altars to the missing and dead where friends and loved ones congregated in tribute.