A new poll commissioned by Policy Exchange and conducted by JL Partners between April 16 and 27, 2026, surveyed 1,006 British Muslims in the parts of England where Muslim populations are concentrated, Greater London, the West Midlands, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and parts of Lancashire, South Yorkshire, and Merseyside. The findings are not ambiguous, and they are not the work of a fringe outlet. Policy Exchange is the most influential center-right think tank in Britain. JL Partners is a member of the British Polling Council. The results confirm what every previous serious poll of British Muslims has shown: no other community in the United Kingdom comes close to matching the levels of antisemitism, sympathy for terrorist organizations, hostility to liberal democratic norms, and divided loyalty seen within Britain’s Muslim population.
Twenty-five percent of British Muslims polled hold a favorable view of Hamas, an organization that on October 7, 2023, slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped Israeli civilians in the worst single attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Sixteen percent hold a favorable view of the Islamic State, the organization that carried out genocide against the Yazidis, enslaved Christian women, and beheaded captives on camera for global broadcast. Fifteen percent hold a favorable view of al-Qaeda, the organization that flew passenger aircraft into the World Trade Center. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Tehran regime’s instrument of regional terrorism and the body responsible for arming the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas, holds a net positive favorability among British Muslim respondents. These are not narrow majorities expressing reservations. These are minorities ranging from one in seven to one in four expressing approval of organizations the British government has formally designated as terrorist.
On the relationship between Islam and the laws of the country in which they live, the numbers are sharper. Sixty-three percent of British Muslims polled want the burning of the Quran made a criminal offense. Fifty-two percent want depictions of Muhammad criminalized. Twenty-four percent, nearly one in four, believe violence is a legitimate response to either. Hundreds of thousands of British Muslims, maybe even millions, hold the view that a fellow citizen who burns a book or draws a cartoon may be killed for it.
On Jews and Israel, forty-five percent of British Muslims polled believe Jews wield excessive influence over the British media. Thirty-nine percent believe the same about Parliament, more than twice the rate found in the general public. Twenty-one percent admit unfavorable feelings toward Jews directly, compared with eleven percent nationally. These are the standard antisemitic conspiracy theories, Jews controlling the media, Jews controlling the government, held at rates that would be disqualifying for any other constituency in British public life and that the political class has, for thirty years, decided to overlook for this one.
When asked which identity comes first, sixty-three percent of British Muslim respondents answered Islamic. Twelve percent answered British. The remainder gave mixed or hedged responses. The country has admitted, settled, and granted citizenship to a population of roughly four million people, and a majority of them, when asked the most basic question of political loyalty, name a religious community above the country whose passport they hold.
These figures are not new. They are consistent with a polling record that goes back more than a decade.
The 2016 ICM survey commissioned by Channel 4, conducted face-to-face with over a thousand British Muslims, found that twenty-three percent supported the introduction of Sharia law in Britain, thirty-nine percent agreed that wives should always obey their husbands, and thirty-five percent believed Jewish people had too much power in Britain. The Henry Jackson Society poll conducted by JL Partners in February and March 2024 found that forty-six percent of British Muslims agreed Jews have too much power over British government policy, while only one in four accepted that Hamas committed murder and rape on October 7. The Pew Research Forum has tracked British Muslim attitudes for years and shown the same pattern, substantial minorities holding views directly hostile to the liberal democratic order, with younger British Muslims more radical than their parents rather than less. British Social Attitudes data shows the same. The findings are not the result of one outlier survey, one biased question, or one partisan researcher. They are the consistent finding of every serious polling operation that has examined the question, across more than a decade, with different methodologies, different sponsors, and different commissioning purposes.
The contrast with every other major community in Britain is the analytical move that matters most.
Practicing Christians remain the largest religious bloc in Britain. They are more socially conservative than secular Britons on questions of family and faith. Their views on terrorism, blasphemy violence, and antisemitism are dramatically milder than those recorded among Muslims. Christian sympathy for Hamas, the Islamic State, or al-Qaeda is statistically negligible. Christian belief that Jews wield excessive power over British institutions runs at a small fraction of the Muslim figure.
The Hindu and Sikh communities of Britain offer an even sharper contrast. Both are smaller than the Muslim community, but both have grown rapidly through immigration in recent decades, meaning the comparison cannot be dismissed as a function of length of settlement. British Hindus and Sikhs rank among the most economically successful and socially integrated minorities in the country. Polling consistently shows low antisemitism, near-zero sympathy for Islamic extremism, strong identification with British civic norms, and warm favorability ratings toward Jews and toward the West. Hindus and Sikhs face violence from Muslim communities with depressing regularity in parts of Britain, at school gates, on city streets, in their own places of worship, and the British political class has noticed this even less than it has noticed the antisemitism.
Across antisemitism, terrorism sympathy, blasphemy violence, divided loyalty, and rejection of basic British political norms, the British Muslim population stands apart. Not by a small margin. By an enormous one. And the gap is not closing with time, contact, or generation. The polls show younger British Muslims are more hostile to Britain than their parents.
Islamic terrorism has been the dominant security threat in Britain for a generation. The overwhelming majority of terror plots disrupted by MI5, the overwhelming majority of arrests under the Terrorism Act, the overwhelming majority of Prevent referrals, all derive from the British Muslim community. Parallel social structures have emerged in cities and towns across the country, with Sharia councils operating outside the British legal system, with grooming networks that targeted thousands of British girls across two decades while authorities looked the other way for fear of “community tensions,” with street-level enforcement of Islamic norms in neighborhoods where ordinary British citizens no longer feel safe. Since October 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents in Britain have surged to levels not seen in the modern history of the country, and the British Jewish community now reports openly that ordinary public life, wearing a kippah, sending children to a Jewish school, walking past a mosque on a Friday, has become very risky.
The 2021 census recorded just under four million Muslims in the United Kingdom, six percent of the total population, up from 4.8 percent a decade earlier. The Pew Research Forum’s mid-range projection has the Muslim share of the British population reaching 17.2 percent by 2050 under continued high-migration assumptions. The Muslim population is younger than the general population, with a higher fertility rate, and is concentrated in specific urban areas where the local share is already much higher than the national average.
The standard response of the British political class to data of this kind has been to suppress it. The 2016 ICM survey was attacked by every Muslim advocacy organization in Britain and dismissed by significant portions of the political class. The 2024 Henry Jackson Society poll was attacked along the same lines. The 2026 Policy Exchange poll will be attacked along the same lines. The strategy is consistent. The numbers are the problem; therefore the numbers must be denied, the methodology must be impugned, the researchers must be smeared, and the topic must be redirected toward “Islamophobia”, a term constructed precisely to make the discussion of the polling impossible. The strategy has failed because the polls keep coming, and they keep finding the same thing. Britain is now living with the cumulative cost of three decades of refusing to discuss what its own data has been telling it.
A serious response to the findings requires three things. First, an honest public conversation, conducted in plain English, about what the polling actually shows and what it implies. Second, a re-examination of the immigration policy that has produced the demographic outcome the polling describes, including a pause on high-volume immigration from regions whose source populations consistently produce these numbers when polled in Britain. Third, the dismantling of the parallel legal, educational, and social structures that have allowed the unintegrated portion of the Muslim community to consolidate its separation from the rest of British life.
Khaled Hassan is a fellow at the Ideological Defense Institute
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The warnings are clear . Four million muslims in the country - 6% of the population, rising at current rates to 17% in 2050 . Look at history for the last 1400 years - constant conflict with muslims . Look at current muslim countries , how they are managed , what they produce . Compare muslims with other groups of arrivals - a lack of rape , violence and benefit fraud noticeable amongst the latter .
The seventh century death cult must not be allowed to settle in twenty first century Britain .
Muslims are only 6.5% of uk population but they are all living in concentrated areas.
They are also very active in giving their votes.
Problem is our apathy in giving our votes and that’s where they win hands down.
Once they are in position they push their agenda.