Correct. This isn't at all like the Japanese custom of bowing, where both parties bow to each other - almost identical to a handshake in western culture.
In the middle east, bowing takes on an ENTIRELY different connotation. Barry's not unfamiliar with Arab and Muslim customs. This was intentional.
remember phony said that he understands muslims as he was one.
He said it when he did his first address and that was to muslims