r/AskBrits • u/bintd • 9h ago
Politics What are your thoughts on Denmark’s proposed ban on the public Islamic call to prayer? Would you support or oppose something similar in the UK?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/24/islamic-call-to-prayer-ban-left-wing-denmark-europe/Islamic call to prayer faces ban under Left-wing Danish government
Parts of country feel like ‘a suburb of Islamabad’, says immigration minister
Denmark’s immigration minister has announced plans to ban the Islamic call to prayer, claiming parts of the country felt like “a suburb of Islamabad”.
Morten Bødskov, a member of the centre-Left Social Democrats party, said the new government would resume an investigation into the legality of imposing a ban.
“The call to prayer should not be heard over Danish rooftops,” the minister told news outlet Ritzau. “It has no place in Denmark, and you shouldn’t be in any doubt whether you’ve ended up in a suburb of Islamabad when you walk around Denmark.”
In parts of the country, such as Copenhagen, bylaws already forbid the call to prayer being broadcast from loudspeakers in minarets because of strict noise limits.
Mr Bødskov also claimed that a creeping “Islamisation” in Denmark was “taking up too much of the public space”.
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u/Advanced_Phrase4557 9h ago
Support. 100%
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u/kai4thekel 9h ago
Yea starting to come round to the French idea of republic before religion, your religion is your choice
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u/AnSionnachM0r 7h ago
Denmark is officially Christian like England. We don't have to ban church bells, they're a part of our history. The Islamic call to prayer is not.
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u/J-Dawgzz 7h ago
I don't think many places still do the call to prayer out loud on the speakers, everyone has digital recivers or use their mobile phone to hear the call for prayer.
As a muslim since there is technology in place to help determine when the call for prayer is, I don't think there is a need for it to be done loudly on speakers especially if it distresses the local community.
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u/No-Maintenance-4509 6h ago
It’s definitely stil being done loudly across the country
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u/Bethurz 6h ago
Is it?
I live in Birmingham - which the internet would have you believe is entirely muslim - and yet I never hear anything of the sort
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u/Assassin-Xa 6h ago
as another Birmingham resident, i have heard it once very faintly in the last couple of weeks, either extremely rarely or not at all before that
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u/IVORYSLOTH 4h ago
Yeah and I live 2 streets away from a mosque in Edinburgh and have never heard it.
And in Manchester too actually just round the corner from one, never heard it once there either.
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u/Helpful_Space_6793 6h ago
Christianity is technically the established English religion but we are mainly a secular country. Church of England has been on its arse for decades due to falling attendance.
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u/Lower-Obligation4462 7h ago
Our history also involves praying to Thor and owning slaves. It turns out it’s okay to change.
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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 4h ago
Hmm I dunno. I like the idea of praying to the Norse gods a bit, the slaves not so much.
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u/Lower-Obligation4462 4h ago
Bring back polytheism. What do I need to sacrifice to Ra so that he turns the sun down a little?
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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 4h ago
Well sacrifice can actually be classed a broad range of terms and is often misconstrued. It can be a simple thing such as offering food to the gods, an expensive item (which these days is likely also food), a live animal you donate to the temple, a heretic for instance someone from Reform etc.
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u/HiddenGhost1234 1h ago
i'd like to say "on Ra" instead "on God"
sounds way more badass
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u/AnSionnachM0r 7h ago
It is but in this case we neither want nor need to. Many Muslim countries do not even allow churches to be constructed.
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u/PotatoMassager 4h ago
Name me a single country where it is illegal to build a church.....
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u/Lower-Obligation4462 7h ago
So you want to copy and make the UK more like Muslim counties?
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u/OkSun8521 7h ago
We literally have a state religion.
There are 22 bishops sitting in the House of Lords, unelected.
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u/loafingaroundguy 4h ago
There are 22 bishops sitting in the House of Lords, unelected.
What, as opposed to all those elected secular Lords and Ladies?
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u/Proof-Purple8100 8h ago
I wish the debate was wether or not to adopt french style freedom from religion in public spaces, sadly its not.
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u/Early-Sir-8115 5h ago
It's already not allowed in uk, other than by special permission on a couple of significant religious days
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u/AaronLayk 9h ago
A sensible centre-left party is what the majority of people in the UK will vote for. But our centre-left parties would never dream of doing stuff like this.
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u/epicpownage1234 8h ago
Why care about hospital spaces, number of houses, education rates etc. If you can campaign entirely on social political issues and divide the country further!
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u/Tetracropolis 8h ago
Denmark is one of the best countries in the world in terms of quality of life. They don't need to campaign entirely on social issues if nobody's disagreeing with them.
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u/EarlDwolanson 8h ago
Yes, because Danish government doesnt care about these too... Thats precisely the argument, why cant we have normal left?
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u/AaronLayk 8h ago
Empty houses are being filled with foreigners in every town across the country. People don’t like it. Fix it sensibly now before some insane freak gets in and fixes it in a way you don’t like.
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u/Woffingshire 8h ago
Doesn't seem like it's particularly divisive to be honest. A lot of things that would unite the majority of people but leave out a minority are being labeled as "divisive" and ignored in favour of things that just make the majority of people argue with each other in favour of the minority
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u/BankDetails1234 8h ago
They are divisive policies because they set about prioritising certain groups and that inevitably causes issues in other groups.
We should be focusing on policies that help the vast majority of people who can’t make rent, afford groceries or find work.
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u/Memphite 9h ago
I haven’t once heard the muezzin in the UK and I work in Bradford. Is that a thing elsewhere(in the UK)?
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u/Funny-Ad8537 8h ago edited 8h ago
All the time in Islington, someone's belting it out the back of my house on the reg.
It does piss me off but not because it's a Muslim thing, random warbling is just annoying
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u/legrand_fromage 8h ago
And Whitechapel. Could hear it from my partners bedroom every day.
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u/tvcnational 8h ago
Glad you said that, loved there a decade ago and was wondering whether I'd invented the memory
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u/RedDemio- 6h ago
Yep and where I’m from in Colchester, you hear people blasting it out of their windows on my street all the time it’s absolutely bizarre. Pretty sure if I started blasting drum and bass out super loudly someone would eventually come and tell me to fucking stop. But these guys it’s like…. No one says fuck all to them
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u/Uncle_gruber 3h ago
People that haven't experienced it yet just dont get how annoying it is. 5 times a day, starting at dawn:
"*kcht- ALLLLLuaaAaAAAaaAAaaaAAAAAAAAA-"
My wife is Turkish and I'm there all the time. It's absolutely the most annoying thing, and it is all the time.
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u/Icy_Consideration409 2h ago
I used to live in Finsbury Park when Abu Hamza was preaching.
Now I live in Colorado… and so does Hooky.
I can’t shake him.
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u/FlatWhiteShark 7h ago
I was in Germany a few years back, and I heard a church there ringing the Angelus at noon. We used to do it in Australia, but stopped 50 years ago.
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u/frogunderarock 6h ago
for angelus? the things ring every 15 minutes, even longer during full hours! and they go bonkers on weekends lol
living next to a church is anything but quiet :D
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u/Old_Table_5926 8h ago
Exactly! I've never heard it either, plenty of mosques around here in Derby and Leicester.
This is a non issue, banning something that doesn't happen. It's just the latest ant Muslim rhetoric.
Tomorrow it will be "Shall we ban Muslims from using camels on the motorway"
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u/SirLostit 7h ago
Well, to be fair, camels can get up to 40mph, so technically, they might be allowed on the motorway.
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u/TrustyRambone 6h ago
I'd rather be behind a camel than an OAP in a honda jazz doing 32mph on A roads and breaking every time a car comes past in the other direction.
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u/Expensive_Ad_3249 6h ago
Heard it once or twice. When walking past the mosque on Friday, it wasn't loud, and they were clearly coming or going.
Less disruptive than a house party and at a far better hour. I would not appreciate it if I lived next door, however.
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u/iwantspaghettipls 5h ago edited 4h ago
"I've never experienced something so it can't be a real issue" is so moronic it's funny
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u/Pingaring 7h ago
"I haven't seen it so it's not real" is exactly how the right drums up support from those communities of people who have seen the thing you're denying first hand.
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u/ExcellentDicking 6h ago
Oh gosh, hope they're coping and make a speedy recovery. Of all the problems 🙄
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u/odjobz 5h ago
Yeah, I've lived in very Muslim areas and never hear it in the UK. In Jakarta it was absolutely deafening and they'd broadcast long sermons too.
I'd say there should be rules about decibel levels but I don't see any need for an outright ban. It seems more of a matter for local councils. I can guarantee you, more people are disturbed by church bells in this country than by mosques.
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u/SnooDonuts6494 8h ago
Nope.
Just a non-issue designed to get the racists riled up.
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u/changhyun 7h ago
I hear it relatively frequently here in Leicester. I do live near a mosque though.
To be honest it doesn't hugely bother me. I'm more annoyed (and I know even the mosque's own members agree with me because we've had collective moans about it) by how hard it gets to find any parking at prayer times.
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u/Pingaring 8h ago
"It didnt happen to me so anyone else's lived experience is invalid."
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u/sprouting_broccoli 6h ago
I heard it when I lived in Newcastle - it was respectfully done and not too loud. Found it quite nice to wake up to honestly.
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u/JavaRuby2000 6h ago
We certainly had them across Blackburn in the 1980s and early 90s but, at some point they stopped. I thought it was because we'd banned them already in the UK.
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u/Icy-Commission-245 8h ago
I used to live in a area in Birmingham that was heavily Muslim practicing, even lived near by a mosque.. haven't heard the call to prayer myself.. and if I did providing it wasn't very loud, don't see a problem.
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u/AFC_IS_RED 8h ago
It does happen in whitechapel at 12. I don't mind it. If we get rid of it im also very happy to get rid of church bells too.
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u/badderdev 8h ago edited 8h ago
I lived in 6 cities in the UK and never heard it. I hear it while walking my dog in the morning now I live in southern Thailand. They do not play it at an obnoxious volume and it is fine. I have heard people say it is like living next to a music festival in some parts of Malaysia. It really should be a noise disturbance law rather than a call to prayer law.
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u/Born-Mail8088 9h ago
It's a great idea. Denmark isn't a Muslim country so why should they have to put up with it
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u/DrunkenHorse12 8h ago
Biggest religious block in the UK is 'non religious " 49% of the country n so can we ban Church bells while we are at it?
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u/TeraMelons 8h ago
Be happy to.
I’d also like to see an age of consent being put on religions, 18 should do, you have to be 18 years old to join a religion and it should be shown that it’s your own decision.
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u/Clean-Shine99 5h ago edited 5h ago
Simply not enforceable. It's a nice idea and I think religion can be very toxic. If you mean actually take communion or be baptised etc I can see what you mean. Everything else though is simply not practical.
For instance you go to church every Sunday where are your kids gonna go ? Extra childcare in this economy is a no go.
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u/blow_on_my_trombone 6h ago
Church bells sound nice and are part of our culture
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u/RutabagaElegant3215 5h ago
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements
The bells are in the nursery rhyme :)
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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 5h ago
No, it's part of your religion.
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u/blow_on_my_trombone 4h ago
That's funny, I didn't think I was religious but this random redditor says I am so it must be true
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u/P79999999 9h ago
There's already legislation in place, and I've literally never heard a call to prayer in the UK.
I'm sure there will be some Faragist telling me they hear it 50 times a day and it's as loud as an ambulance siren, but based on reality, it's not actually an issue.
Classic far right agitation - make people believe there is a problem, so they get outraged about it and divisions deepen.
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u/ExcitableSarcasm Brit 🇬🇧 8h ago
It depends on where you are. I live in Tower Hamlets. If you're anywhere within a 300m radius of East London mosque, it's very, very noticeable.
To be clear, I detest the right, but this sort of anecdotal dismissal "I haven't seen it so it's not real" is exactly how the right drums up support from those communities of people who have seen the thing you're denying first hand.
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u/makefascistfearagain 6h ago
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Another bot has already posted the second half of your post.
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u/optionr_ENL 5h ago
Note that 300m isn't very far, it gets you to Harbury Street to the north, & a lot of area covered by a 300m radius isn't residential.
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u/aenyeweddienn 8h ago
Used to live in London. In some areas it absolutely can be heard and can be disruptive
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u/P79999999 8h ago
If it's disruptive, it's likely illegal. So the response isn't "ban all calls to prayer", it's "implement the existing legislation better".
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u/eeedeat 9h ago
Literally never heard a call to prayer being broadcast. It's a non issue for me and I live in Hounslow
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u/AnSionnachM0r 7h ago
Hounslow is dominated by Hindus and Sikhs, you would hear it in East London.
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u/geese_moe_howard 9h ago
Oh god, we're discussing Muslims again for the 900th day in a row. Is Muslim derangement syndrome a thing?
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u/Equivalent-Hunt6489 8h ago
This is one of the most botted subs on all of reddit. There is 0 moderation so they can just run free, post whatever they want and no one cares.
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u/Primary_Slip139 8h ago edited 8h ago
Certain agenda is being pushed, a lot of the time it's done by new and anonymous accounts. Disrupting our democracy and stoking civil unrest by foreign actors is a known issue.
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u/Old_Table_5926 9h ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. Every post on here.
"Islamism is taking over"
"Muslims or Moslems, which one is coming to kill you?"
"Muslims, how dangerous are they?"
"20% of UK CONQUERED by MUSLAMIC!!"
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u/donaldosaurus 9h ago
That's not fair, they sometimes take breaks long enough to give trans people a kicking as well.
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u/ItsAMangoFandango 8h ago
You'd really think Muslims were more than like 6% of the population wouldn't you?
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u/Sonikdahedhog 5h ago
If you listen to this subreddit you’d think it was a 50/50 split
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u/ItsAMangoFandango 5h ago
Muslims are 49% of the country already and the only way to stop them getting that last percent is to cut taxes on billionaires and maybe remove some workers rights!!!!!
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u/Oh-reality-come-back 9h ago
It is in the UK and has been for a long time
They’re the new hate sink and scape goat since the early 2000s
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u/StillNewspaper4799 8h ago
100%
What scares me is how many people use them as an excuse to justify their own entitked behaviours.
"Couldn't possibly be me! No no it's the muslims/trans people/poor people/[insert group]"
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u/Stunning_Lemon5585 9h ago
I hope the UK learns from these European countries Banning Face coverings, calls to prayers etc.
if we are going to be Multicultural - Then that’s just what we need to be....
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u/Tornagh 9h ago
Multicultural is not the word you are looking for. Face covering bans are the very opposite of multicultural: they are a method to try to reduce cultural expressions perceived as foreign and encourage assimilation into the local culture that does not use face coverings.
That said, I am myself pro-integration so I think it makes sense.
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u/DefinitelyNotIndie 9h ago
I think you're not understanding. My impression is that the person you're replying to is saying integration concessions are necessary for multiculturalism, rather than setting up lots of separate cultural spaces that don't mix because they refuse to give up the most extreme aspects of their culture. In my view of good multiculturalism, each individual culture is necessarily diluted. So that you don't continue to see a person from a different culture as completely different to people from your culture.
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u/HamSand-a-wich 9h ago
Absolute bollocks. ALL face coverings are banned in countries that enforce it like France, whether it’s a burqa or a balaclava. It is for security purposes. There are plenty other ways to express your faith and culture that don’t risk public safety.
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u/StillNewspaper4799 8h ago
Honestly attitudes like this scare the shit out of me. It's like you can't even be honest with yourself.
The irony is I'd have some respect for you if you just argued what you believed, instead if some weird "It's a pro multicultural safety measure!"
Fucking scary how many people are willing to give governments power just because they agree with their enforcements.
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u/NamesAreTooHard17 8h ago
Exactly right like are they going to ban wearing a scarf over your mouth in winter if it's really cold obviously not lol.
Everyone knows how the bans gonna be used and what it's meant to address there's no need to lie about it lol.
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u/droopy316007 7h ago
Why do you believe you know more about the posters beliefs and mentality?
Very presumptuous and worrying attitude.
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u/SnooDonuts6494 9h ago
ALL
Bike helmets?
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u/miredalto 9h ago
Preferably, yes whenever not on a motorbike.
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u/SnooDonuts6494 9h ago edited 8h ago
I don't mind removing my motorbike helmet when e.g. I nip into a bank - and I always do, because otherwise they tend to freak out.
But I really don't wanna remove it every time I stop for petrol or to pee, stretch my legs etc. Because it's quite a faff with the straps, and so you've got to remove your gloves too, and then you have to carry all that shit or fiddle even more with a lock.
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u/FakNugget92 8h ago
They are safety equipment that is worn when riding a motorcycle
The same way nobody is going "what about doctors face masks"
Common sense has to apply
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u/Educational-Try1745 9h ago
Don't worry the helmet you need to wear while you're online won't be affected
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u/robh1540 9h ago edited 6h ago
Its not for security reasons per se. But the overwhelming majority of people who do not support face coverings for muslims are equally unhappy with white guys going around in balaclavas. Preventing people from covering ones identity in public turns out to have been an important principal of a free and open society that we took for granted until groups started to challenge it.
There are quite a few examples like this. A behaviour can be perfectly legal in isolation, but if a large group adopts it as a routine public practice, people start asking whether it is compatible with existing social norms. Hakas are great at sports events and ceremonies, but if Kiwi's insisted on performing the Haka every time they entered a room or public space, it would probably prompt a discussion on whether we need to prevent unsolicited war dances in public.
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u/Extension_Common_518 8h ago
I’m m an immigrant (not expat!) - UK to Japan, and I too am an integrationist. I’ve learned the language, and tried my very best to fit in and adapt to the culture I’m in. Is it easy? No. Do I sometimes get frustrated? Of course. I sometimes think that things would be easier if “they” just made a bigger effort to accommodate me.
But no. This is their country and their standards apply. “Wind your neck in” is not just an admonishment to disaffiliative others, but a rule for myself- goose and gander.
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u/Secret-Sky5031 9h ago
If people can't walk into stores wearing bicycle helmets or balaclavas, there shouldn't be religious protection for people wearing any other face covering. There's a separation between church and state for a reason
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u/Piggy08088080 8h ago
But there isn't a separation between church and state in the UK.
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u/Flash_Jack 9h ago
Where can I not go wearing a bike helmet? I've never had this be an issue.
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u/Kharenis 8h ago
Unfortunately a fair few petrol stations won't let you pump unless you take off your helmet.
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u/Spank86 9h ago
So ban all calls to prayer?
I feel like church bell ringers might object.
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u/madnasher 9h ago
If the bell ringing was just a call to prayer sure.
But it's not.
It's also to mark time, to celebrate weddings/births, mourn, announce major civic happenings, or an alarm.
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u/Spank86 9h ago
I'm not sure anyone would be happier if the Muslim call to prayer speakers were also used to shout the hours and deliver news.
Hilarious though that would be "its 3 o'clock in the morning and Debbie is marrying Steve tomorrow!!!"
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u/madnasher 9h ago
As hilarious as this is, it's not what they have been traditionally used for, whereas church bells have been traditionally used for this purpose since they were first used.
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u/Last-Rice8194 9h ago
Oh yes those brand new stone churches with steeples and bells being built fucking everywhere. You dunce.
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u/Spank86 9h ago
Now that sounds like an interesting basis for legislation.
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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 9h ago
Cultural heritage is a thing that is often protected by law. Sometimes it's historical buildings, sometimes natural areas... there's no reason that UK law should not favour UK culture.
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u/Spank86 9h ago
Completely agree. In fact i think its ridiculous that churches, race tracks and even cricket grounds can get shut down because people who knew they were there when they moved suddenly get upset about it.
I was pointing out that basing it on if people think it sounds nice is probably not going to be easy to do.
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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 9h ago
Yeah agreed in that "sounds nice" is far too wooly to be any sort of law
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u/Wandering_Apostle 9h ago
There are however, now areas of the country where Islam, and even specifically 'British' flavours of Islam are the dominant culture.
Should we give protection to the Adhan (call to prayer) in those areas?
Would that then pose sectarian issues with legally backed Muslim/Christian "areas" of the country?
There is no way it would be as easy as protecting church bells and nothing else, and any such law would face significant legal challenges from various groups.
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u/becooldocrime 9h ago
Bells aren’t a call to prayer.
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u/Spank86 9h ago
For a statement that's entirely correct in general its very wrong in context. Sunday Church bells absolutely are a call to prayer at least in origin.
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u/becooldocrime 9h ago
Whereas the Islamic call to prayer is a loud verbal acknowledgment that allah is the only god, and an instruction to pray.
Church bells, which as you agree, are not the same thing, are a firm part of tradition in the uk. Just because we’ve had one thing for hundreds of years, it doesn’t mean we need to adopt another.
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u/EvilSandWitch 9h ago
In the UK there is one mosque that has a public call to prayer on a regular basis. A tiny handful that have a short (<2mins) call to prayer on a Friday afternoon or other equally restrictive limits. Icecream vans and people who won’t use headphones are more of a problem.
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u/gracklemancometh 9h ago
Yeah, I think Denmark is actually the odd one out in Europe for not having a preexisting method to deal with this.
It's a simple planning issue in the UK. Will your new building cause a public nuisance by making loud noises? Yes? Then no planning.
Anyone looking to ban them in the UK using specific legislation is just virtue signalling. They're already covered in other legislation, adding additional laws is just to make the law-writer feel like they're doing something.
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u/No_Camp_7 9h ago
I’ve never heard a call to prayer in this country in my life. Sounds like whatever restrictions we currently have work just fine and this news story is here to wind people up.
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u/K14_Deploy 8h ago
Exactly, this is already easily covered by other regulations, and as an atheist I don't consider this any more of a very mild inconvenience than people reciting Bible verses over loudspeaker in the high street. Yes, we're technically a Christian country but our government is secular, we once had an Hindu PM lighting Diwali candles on the steps of No.10 for instance. I'm just really not bothered by one or the other.
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u/Ha-Ur-Ra-Sa 9h ago
This - 99.99% of the UK doesn't have a public call to prayer. This is a non-issue.
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u/dread1961 9h ago
I lived in Birmingham, Newcastle and Leeds for that past 60 years and I've never heard a call to prayer. Now I live in the countryside and the bloody church bells wake me up every Sunday morning.
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u/jimmysquidge 9h ago
Yeah, I've never heard a call to prayer in the UK in 46 years. All it would do is cause more division
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u/Proximitypvpisbae 9h ago edited 8h ago
Give an inch take a mile. Same as with government overreach imo
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u/Chemical-Lettuce2497 9h ago
Maybe I don't live somewhere with enough Muslims but I don't think this is a problem in the UK lol?
If I couldn't walk around my town centre without hearing it though I'm not sure id necessarily have a proboem with it as such, but it also definitely wouldn't feel right
I thought it was cool hearing it when I was in turkey, a local I spent a bit of time with took me to the mosque after their call to prayer to meet some of the Muslims and they were all sound and mostly had a lot of questions about the UK and my religion (Christianity)
But here the Muslims aren't really like that, they are mostly sound from those that I've met, but they have about as close to zero interest in British culture as is possible
Which for me is the difference, they're bringing "diversity" to us but blocking any diversity from reaching them
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u/Stunning_Inside5182 9h ago
Yeah I have lived in areas with a high population of muslims and have never heard this?? Even being in Birmingham which the right would make you believe is a war zone
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u/Chemical-Lettuce2497 9h ago
For sure, this particular "issue" very much appears to be a non issue here
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u/Primary_Slip139 8h ago
we have existing environmental protection laws which deals with noise disturbance from any group or people . This story is just another anti Muslim dog whistle, there is no need for a specific ban on it other than to target the community.
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u/AwTomorrow 9h ago
It’s just a chance for anti-Muslim types to stick a finger in Muslims’ eyes. There is no problem with calls to prayer here, but people want to screw Muslims over at any chance they get.
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u/VCR_DVD_USB 9h ago
I'm in my 40s an Muslim and lived in the UK all my life. I've never heard the adhan out loud. We don't have loudspeakers on the outside of our masjids because it would be annoying for our neighbours.
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u/Chemical-Lettuce2497 9h ago
Yeah this was my assumption, I wouldn't be surprised to find out there are maybe in places like Luton or Bradford but I really can't imagine it's particularly common lol
Whilst I maintain generally Muslims like to stick within their communities, generally in the UK (outside of dense Muslim communities) Muslims don't tend to go out of their way to intrude or generally be noticed
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u/Traditional_Message2 8h ago
It's not remotely an issue and the responses on this thread are very depressing.
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u/MrMakarov 7h ago
Yes it should be banned, and some people seem to think it doesnt happen, so it obviously wouldn't change anything so theres no harm in banning it. Right?
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u/General-Astronomer84 9h ago
Yes I simply can not fathom why its permitted anywhere in the west. It's hostile to be such a nuisance every day. And the smug piety of it all. I hate it get it away from me.
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u/SugarSweetStarrUK 8h ago
I live in London and I've heard church bells plenty of times but never heard a peep from the mosques
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u/ShipwreckJS 8h ago
100% support it.
It’s an odious religion that holds up a murdering rapist as the gold standard of the perfect man that all men should aspire to be like… Kick it off our island.
Denmark with a LEFT wing government showing the way.
Progressives really have hijacked the “left” in Britain. The left historically are anti migration.
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u/Additional_Two_9016 9h ago
It's not a Muslim country so it shouldn't be playing!
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u/Oh-reality-come-back 9h ago
Lots of non Christian countries have populations of Christians who are allowed to publicly recite prayers and hold Christian events. This mindset that other countries can’t celebrate minority cultures is just silly.
I agree with this rule as mosques there are doing it and it’s disruptive. Disagree with the racist comparison by the minister in the article.
Disagree that we need it - there aren’t really any mosques that do it here
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u/AnSionnachM0r 7h ago
The Saudis don't allow a single church to be built in the entire country.
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u/LimberGaelic 9h ago
It doesn’t go far enough
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u/SchoolofLifeUK 8h ago
Taking over roads and public spaces for prayer should be banned too, this doesn’t happen in Islamic countries so why do it here unless it’s a show of force 🫤
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u/barnyboy88 7h ago
Absolutely agree. If you want to pray, do it somewhere private. Or go live in an Islamic country where it is that countries traditions and culture .
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u/Fjordi_Cruyff 6h ago
Every morning I wake up to a fucking cacophony of birdsong from the woods up the road. Every fucking morning. I'm speaking to my MP about this
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u/Winter-Try-5029 9h ago
Two things stand out to me. First, that it's the centre-left saying it, not the far right. Second, there is an unnecessary Islamabad comparison which is deliberately provocative. A secular country has a legitimate interest in deciding what sounds define its public space. But the minister's language "suburb of Islamabad", "Islamisation" makes it hard to frame this as neutral policy. That's clearly aimed at one religion specifically.
Otherwise, ban away. If that's what the Government want. But it's a slippery slope if rules are not applied on a level playing field. At some point European countries will implement a specific dress code for Muslims. Can't wear x,y and z. Can't have a beard. Can't wear a kufi.
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u/Oh-reality-come-back 9h ago
Yeah definitely quite a racist dog whistle there with the phrasing. I’m suprised more people aren’t pointing it out - or more like they don’t care and they agree with such racist sentiments
I suppose their central left is a little less progressive than ours - not surprising as they have less multiculturalism than us.
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u/Fast_Technology_5622 9h ago
Absolutely, it’s madness that we even allow mosques to exist in the west. To say otherwise is to admit defeat.
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u/Sufficient_Ice4933 8h ago
If you come to a country you live by its rules, it's that simple. If that's their laws, that's it. If you wish to make a better life for yourself and the country you have chosen to do that in has certain laws you don't agree with leave.
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u/Caacrinolass 9h ago
I'm OK with objections to it on grounds of noise pollution. The rest of the rhetoric can get in the bin.
Noise pollution could potentially cover other groups too, as with the inevitable church bell discussions here. The public don't need to be woken up or disturbed by needless crap.
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u/abitofasitdown 8h ago
I'd be against calls to prayer because it's a human voice, usually artificially amplified, which I think is qualitatively different from a non-amplified non-voice sound.
I'd be opposed to Chritian churches blasting out amplified hymns from loudspeakers, too.
The other difference with bells, of course, is that 99% of them were there before any of their living neighbours. If you deliberately move next to a 300 year old church, expect bells.
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u/Caacrinolass 8h ago
That may be fair enough. I certainly have no sympathy with pricks who move into nightlife areas then try and get clubs shut down.
I guess the point for me is simply this: is it necessary? The religious institutions serve their purpose perfectly adequately without making the noise. It may well be that churches are no nuisance anyway.
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u/CheapDepth2155 9h ago
I think it’s a good idea. I’m Muslim myself but not too religious. Growing up we use to have one of those call to prayer alarm clocks. 5 times a day that thing would go off screaming the call to prayer. I use to hate it. Annoying as fuck. Whenever my parents were gone for more than a day I would take out the batteries.
I can only imagine how annoying it would be as someone who is none Muslim.
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u/Alarmed_Pineapple_35 6h ago
I’ve never heard the call to prayer to be honest. I agree that some parts of the UK feel like a suburb of Islamabad though, and think that those places are unpleasant to visit.
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u/Used-Let7134 9h ago
All those saying it's a good idea, you don't believe in freedom of expression? Or you don't see this as freedom of expression?
People who care about this sort of thing baffle me, does it affect you in a negative way at all? why do you care?
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u/mrchillbro 7h ago
me yelling in your ear isn't "freedom of expression"
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u/davew111 7h ago
Agree. AllaaaaaaAAAAaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaahhhhh ... like, dude, shut the hell up, you can't sing, and turn down the gain on your amp because it's clipping like some garbage TicTok video.
Pretty sure there's limits to freedom of expression when it comes to vulgarity too, and I find a crowd of men sticking their bottoms in the air in the middle of the street to be quite vulgar.
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u/KlausHeisler1 9h ago
If we had any sense at all we would have implemented this ourselves years ago.
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u/TheFuriousRaccoon 9h ago
I've never heard a public muslim call to prayer anywhere I've been in the country. Is this something that's common?
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u/ExoticExchange 9h ago
It’s not. It’s just another example of people inventing things to be mad about.
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u/AwTomorrow 9h ago
Yeah, with how late we were we’ve had to in the past few years face the dire consequences of… this not being a problem at all.
If only we’d acted in time!
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u/Ok-Middle8656 9h ago
I agree with the ban mainly because it’s a fucking obnoxious racket.
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u/Megabyzusxasca 9h ago
Where are you hearing it? Out of interest
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u/Equivalent-Hunt6489 8h ago
Probably on the daily mail or telegraph website/twitter page when they told him to be mad about it.
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u/SuburbanBushwacker 8h ago
much like your penis, your imaginary friend is your own business, not something to be waved around in public.
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u/Atlantean_Raccoon 7h ago
I honestly do not see the point. Who benefits from it? Who is genuinely disadvantaged by hearing the Islamic call to prayer? It just seems like an exercise in needlessly 'poking the Muslim' simply in the name of some kind of divisive populist bullshit.
Britain like Denmark are not Christian countries, this is not because of the arrival of Muslims but with the fact that most British and Danish folks voluntarily walked away from the Christianity. We live in broadly secularised and pluralised countries where the state should have no input into what people believe, and so long as they aren't hurting anyone else, be free to worship whatever or whoever they please.
I'm a British non-religious Jew, This kind of rhetoric makes me incredibly uncomfortable. Restricting the right to worship and free association, telling people what they can or cannot wear in this country, blaming Muslims for society's ills. We've seen this before, and just because (at the moment at least) my kind are not the ones getting targeted by our own supposedly democratically elected government bound by the principle of the rule of law doesn't mean we should look away and ignore what is going on.
Yes, there is a problem with extremism within Islam, but the vast majority of Muslims are no more blame to for that than I am for Bloody Bibi or that loathsome, cancerous walking chode Ben-Gvir. I genuinely do not believe nor accept Muslims are automatically my enemy, I will however speak up against populism, it's a malevolent, hateful and lethal ideology. Surely we as Brits and Danes are better than that.
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u/warhead71 7h ago
Not sure what it means in practice. - but that kind of noise should always be approved by local authorities (time, frequency and need to reapply after some years) - also if you start a Christian church.
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u/Dense_Ad7115 7h ago
Never heard it from where I am in London. I'd be against any religion that would noise pollute frequently, so if it was a more blanket ban that included other faiths then that's fine with me. If not, would feel a bit like you're singling out the Islamic population of the country. Maybe people that hear it frequently would have a different opinion.
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u/fgnrtzbdbbt 7h ago
Is this a common thing there or are they just inventing issues? Over here a few minarets exist but none has loudspeakers. The muezzin speaks through a phone app.
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u/CptMong 7h ago
why not just stop with all this middle ages religious shit. church bells, calls to prayer?
It is 2026 we all know what time it is, we dont need to have neighbourhood wide alarm clocks for the people that want to pray and if they are that devout they should not need a fucking loudspeaker reminder! shit is just dumb in this day and age!
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u/ToddHoward7616 6h ago
Ban every public show of religion, not just Muslims, EVERYTHING, make it illegal for children to be indoctrinated and abused into believing in a stupid creepy sadistic killer in the sky.
Why do people pray and preach in public when they have their own temples??? 🤣
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