Susceptibility to conspiracy theories was described as a “more troubling” implication by the authors of the report, Unsettled Belonging, published by the think-tank Policy Exchange.
But stressing the diversity and complexity of views among British Muslims, they said the overwhelming majority feel a strong sense of belonging to Britain.
While Muslims were more religious and socially conservative than the general population, social conservatism was not the same as extremism.
Despite their religious outlook, the lifestyles of most British Muslims was “essentially secular” in character.
The vast majority, 90 per cent, condemned terrorist violence, with only two per cent sympathetic to it (compared with four per cent of the British population in general).
Only one in five Muslims would turn to a Muslim organisation to influence local or government officials, and it was felt organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain carried “little national clout”.