 Shortly after two Nigerian Islamists murdered a serving British soldier, Lee Rigby, in a Woolwich street in 2013 as he was walking back to the Royal Artillery Barracks, Bukhari was justifying the attack on a BBC News channel.Aisha Patel of the "New York Daily Sun" criticized the BBC for inviting Bukhari to give his opinion and said "Asghar Bukhari is not representative of Muslims.He is a representative of political Islam which has no place in British politics in the hothead, extremist form personified by Bukhari".