In European politics and parliaments, the representation of Muslims living in Europe is vitally important in terms of social peace on the continent and the integration of Muslims into the countries where they are living. However, Muslims are seemingly underrepresented in European legislatives as Muslim minority representation is not proportionate to their share in the general population. It has also been revealed that the political involvement of the overwhelming majority of Muslim legislators in the issues of the masses they presumably represent does not meet expectations, nor do the values of these representatives necessarily coincide with those of the represented. The reasons are rooted in the fact that in European countries with Muslim minority representation, the political filtering mechanisms exclude religious conservative Muslims from the system, while the dominant secular political culture in Europe also pushes them out.
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