article_snippet: The 40-year-old has appeared on the BBC’s flagship
article_snippet: Newsnight programme four times and was praised when Afzal Amin spoke out against the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby by Islamists, insisting that Muslims were an ‘integral part’ of Britain.
article_snippet: And Afzal Amin told a newspaper that British society and political leaders as well as community leaders must share the blame for the ‘jihad generation’ that is travelling to Syria to join murderous Islamic State.
article_snippet: Influential: With Justin Welby at a seminar about sex crimes in war last year .
article_snippet: Interviewed on BBC News about the murder of Lee Rigby and the effect on the Muslim community .
article_snippet: We work tackling gangs with Iraqi police.
article_snippet: The only candidate in the whole of the UK who’s been on Newsnight four times.