If I were in a community where they were dead opposed to music on religious grounds, such as is the case with some extreme Protestant and Islamic Fundamentalists I'd be careful about singing on the street corners, that's true enough. That wouldn't mean I'd agree with the bastards, it's about common sense.

If I were Salman Rushdie I think I'd be very pissed off at the British Government for stirring the shit like this.

Here lies the body of old John Gray
Who died defending his right-of-way.
He was right — dead right — as he rolled along,
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.