Of the total number of respondents, 79 percent said that they have been discriminated against at least once, while 12 percent said they had never been the victim of discrimination.
Meanwhile, 9 percent of respondents said they did not know whether any such incident had happened to them.
The survey -- sponsored by the European Commission -- was conducted in October and its results were released on November 26.
It is the latest of ongoing studies of prejudice experienced by Muslims living in Europe.
The rise of Islamophobia in Europe and the US has increased since the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 on the US World Trade Center.
Many political parties and governments in Europe have adopted opposing stances against the Muslim community.
Last year, Switzerland imposed a ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of mosques, which was passed by a clear public majority in a referendum.
In a separate move, France passed a law which bans women from wearing the burqa, a Muslim veil for women that covers their face. The law is due to be put into effect from 2011.
In 2005, a study by the EU's European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia found that, “Muslims are often victims of negative stereotyping, at times reinforced through negative or selective reporting in the media.”
“In addition, they are vulnerable to manifestations of prejudice and hatred in the form of anything from verbal threats through to physical attacks on people and property,” it added.
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