While most Muslims like Britain, in part because they can practise their faith freely, many do not enthuse about their non-Muslim compatriots

A “chasm” has opened up between British Muslims and the rest of the population on key issues such as marriage, education, freedom of speech and even violence in the defence of religion, according to new research.

The findings of an ICM poll will be presented in a Channel 4 documentary, What British Muslims Really Think, on Wednesday. It will portray Muslims as a nation within a nation that has its own geography, values and a very separate future.

The programme is presented by Trevor Phillips, head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission between 2006 and 2012. Twenty years ago he commissioned a survey on Muslim Britain when he was chairman of the Runnymede Trust.

The report made predictions about the expected number of Muslims