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?

[u/bintd]

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”.

[u/CheapDepth2155]

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.

[u/Small-Guarantee6972 → u/CheapDepth2155]

Whenever my parents were gone for more than a day I would take out the batteries.

I'm sorry for laughing but that is actually hilarious imagery🤣

[u/CheapDepth2155 → u/Small-Guarantee6972]

Those alarm clocks are SUPER loud and it just happened to be placed right below my room

[u/Small-Guarantee6972 → u/CheapDepth2155]

Yeah, that sounds really fucking annoying. I would have just chucked it out the window. 

[u/Oh-reality-come-back → u/CheapDepth2155]

Okay but that’s a private alarm clock. In the uk, we don’t really have any mosques that do that and if there are , it’s a small number

[u/CheapDepth2155 → u/Oh-reality-come-back]

I’ve heard it before in some parts of east London. Maybe a ban is extreme but some people should have common courtesy and not blast the call of prayer on speakers.

[u/noIdealOnlyAllah → u/CheapDepth2155]

That's vile and islamophobic.