A report raises questions over claims Muslims have been unfairly singled out by police since 9/11

Muslims are no more likely than white Britons to be stopped by police on suspicion of committing crime, according to research from Cambridge University.

A study of the use of stop-and-search powers has cast doubt on claims that Muslims have been unfairly targeted.

The research, by the Woolf Institute, concluded: “There is little evidence of the indiscriminate use of stop and search that would comply with the definition of Islamophobia.”

While being Muslim increased a person’s likelihood of being stopped in the street by a “very small amount”, it fell for those in vehicles.

However, once Muslims were stopped, they were more likely than any other ethnic or religious group to be searched.

The report for the Woolf Institute, which was founded in Cambridge in