Radicalisation of Muslim community in Europe started in the 1960s due to the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood.

 The 28 countries of the European Union [EU] are home to about 25 million Muslims. Their presence is currently the basis of controvesy .debate, fear and in some parts of Europe, outright hatred. Never before has the European continent witnessed this level of mutual suspicion between mainstream European societies and the Muslims. There is increasing fear and opposition to European Muslims, who are perceived as a threat to national identity, domestic security and the main-stream social fabric. Mainstream society in Europe can be loosely defined as that section of the population which believes in Christianity and its value system. 

Historically, Islamic globalisation began as early as the late Middle Ages (500 to 1400–1500 AD), the Muslims’ presence in Europe was only of the fringes of the continent, starting at the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and spreading along the Mediterranean shores to other parts of Southern Europe. Parts of the Ottoman Caliphate’s Balkan territory became Muslim in the early modern period (1440-1500),while Tartar settlers brought Islam to the Baltic region. In the late 19th century, Muslim migration to Western Europe was largely connected to the empires. The first clusters of networks of Muslims. emerged after 1918, as a result of the Great War (as World War-1 was known) which brought thousands of Muslims into Europe and institutionalised Islam in the continent. Muslim communities emerged in three spaces — the mosques as religious physical spaces, associations and organisations as legal spaces, and constructive and intellectual spaces, expressed through Islamic newspapers and media.

Radicalisation of these Muslim communities in Europe started in the 1960s due to the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood. Founded in Egypt in 1928 by Islamic scholar Hassan al-Banna, the Jamāʿat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn, also known as Muslim Brotherhood, has spread internationally, influencing various Islamic movements from charitable organisations to political parties. These organisations have different names, but a singular goal – jihad against the world.