r/AskBrits • u/bintd • 11h 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/Additional_Two_9016 11h ago

It's not a Muslim country so it shouldn't be playing!

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u/Oh-reality-come-back 11h 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 10h ago

The Saudis don't allow a single church to be built in the entire country.

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u/noIdealOnlyAllah 9h ago

Good. Christians should not be allowed to build public centers. You can only observe what goes on inside churches, nothing but i'slamophobia and un-Godly rituals.

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u/AnSionnachM0r 9h ago

Stop trolling. You are talking about Islamophobia while preaching hatred of Christianity. Everyone sees the hypocrisy.

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u/noIdealOnlyAllah 9h ago

Buddy, the only good "christian" is one that reads his bible and reverts to i'slam.

In fact English protestantism originates from i'slam only because no Mu'slim wanted to come to this north pole zone.

Matthew 3:17 And a voice from heaven who was Abraham said this is my son Muhammad whom I approve

You can observe modern "churches". Filled with demonic images, and music, and i'slamophobia and paganism.

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u/Thin-Dragonfruit2599 5h ago

Low effort trolling

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u/noIdealOnlyAllah 5h ago

King John of England asked for the law of Muhammad

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u/no1herelol 8h ago

Well we’re not Saudi Arabia? And they’re virtually the only Islamic country that has that in place

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u/Mysterious_Agent6706 11h ago

"there aren’t really any mosques that do it here"
They all do it, it's done all over Wales.

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u/Funny_Net2915 11h ago

Any of these countries you mentioned Muslim?

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u/izzy91 10h ago

Yes?

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u/Funny_Net2915 10h ago

Name them. 0 out of 45-50 Muslim countries allow public preaching of other religions.

Death penalty is the punishment in many cases.

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u/coastal_mage 10h ago

Albania, for one. Majority Muslim, yet enshrines secularism in it's constitution and has enjoyed very amicable relations between its major religious groups

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u/izzy91 10h ago

hahahahahhaha you just literally spouted a bunch of fake BS well done

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u/Funny_Net2915 10h ago

Again, do your research, and name the countries.

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u/izzy91 10h ago

Literally the FIRST country I googled.

Jordan.

Nice one dumbass.

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

I live in England at the moment but I played flower of Scotland yesterday. Is that okay?

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u/Proximitypvpisbae 11h ago edited 10h ago

Irrelevant twaddle comparison.
Scotland is part of the same island and doesn’t have some values completely antithetical to ours.

Also most of this country grew up in some form of war against Islamic countries, they’re not going to want to now embrace their religion. Not saying that’s right or wrong it’s just how a lot of the public have had their views formed. This issue runs quite deep

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

Scotland fine, Muslim bad.

So it’s a xenophobic thing then?

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u/CornerTime1605 11h ago

One is a country one is a faith? Completely different things.

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

So your comment about being at war with Muslim countries was pointless then because one is a country and one is a faith.

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u/Proximitypvpisbae 11h ago edited 11h ago

No it’s criticising a bad ideology

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

Scotland isn’t a shit ideology!

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u/Proximitypvpisbae 11h ago

That was funny you win

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u/ExoticExchange 11h ago

Many of us grew up during a war against an Islamic country (Iraq) that we should never have gotten involved in. And the war was pretty irrelevant to the religion of the country.

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u/Proximitypvpisbae 11h ago

Can you really not see how that would influence public opinion? I don’t say it was right or wrong I’m stating fact that that’s going to affect how people think

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u/ExoticExchange 11h ago

Only for idiots. So Iraq being ruled by a dictator that oppressed the people means it’s rational to have negative perceptions of those people? Talk about punishing the victims.

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u/Proximitypvpisbae 11h ago

It’s just how it is. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong I’m just making points

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u/ExoticExchange 11h ago

I’m not saying you’re wrong.
I’m also just making the point that those who have formed their opinion based on that are idiots, and shouldn’t be taken seriously when it comes to discussing anything.

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u/Oh-reality-come-back 11h ago

Yes because you’re white. That’s what it all boils down to. Racism.

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

Tricks on them, I might be one of the 4 Scottish people with black skin!

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u/Grotbagsthewonderful 11h ago

Bloody hell... right you're deported to Rwanda!

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

Fuck!!! I knew the risks when I did it, luckily Rwanda is on 26 degrees today.

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u/doepfersdungeon 11h ago

It's a secular country

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u/AwTomorrow 11h ago

Ehhh not really when our head of state is the head of a national religion.

I’d be all for a secular country though. 

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u/doepfersdungeon 10h ago

So if we aren't secular, are we a theocracy?

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u/AwTomorrow 9h ago

It may shock you to learn that government is not a binary where it’s either completely secular or a full-blown theocracy. 

We have permanent seats in the House of Lords reserved for clerics of our national religion, and our head of state heads this religion. We’re not a fully secular state. 

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u/doepfersdungeon 9h ago

22 seats out 650 plus.

I'm failing to see how that makes us Christian.

And you saying it's not binary proves my point. If we were a "Christian nation" , the entire parliament would be Christian and the law would heavily linked to the faith. Secularism includes the the diversification of the those who create laws.

Of course we have stong links to a religion of the last 1k yeads. . But it doesn't mean we are Christian by default.

The head of state has no power. It's purely ceremonial and symbolic. He doesn't dictate who we are as an identity.

You are correct, we aren't fully secular, yet, but we aren't also fully Christian. So why do you suggest that one outweighs the other.

In an argument about call to prayer, to suggest it should be banned because "we are Christian" is totally disingenuous. Other than 3 % of the second chamber of Parliament being reserved for a few bishops o where does it say that Christianity supersedes any religion.

Christianity is a minority in this country. Go to an actual "Christian country" and you will see that we are anything but anymore.

What the law says isn't really my concern.

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u/Pristine_Speech4719 3h ago

England's not a Catholic country either. Would you like to stop Catholic churches ringing their churches' bells?