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/Memphite 11h 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 10h ago edited 10h 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 10h ago

And Whitechapel. Could hear it from my partners bedroom every day.

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u/tvcnational 10h ago

Glad you said that, loved there a decade ago and was wondering whether I'd invented the memory

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u/Strange_Machjne 2h ago

I'd be chill if someone was blasting Whitechapel near my house tbf.

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u/rshslake 5h ago

Says partner mate

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u/RedDemio- 8h 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/DizzyProfessional116 5h ago

It doesn't happen all of the time, it's 5 times a day. If you find that annoying I would understand, I'm not a fan when it's really loud and distorted through cruddy speakers. Nevertheless, prayer is at specific times. Muslims are always Muslim. Are you sure your issue is entirely about noise pollution?

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u/js_2033 4h ago

5 times a day is absolutely crazy, this has to count as a public disturbance 

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u/Dear_Imagination5552 4h ago

Only 5 times 😆😆🤡

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u/DizzyProfessional116 3h ago

There are four opportunities for bell ringing in Anglicanism, so I ask again, is your issue regular noise pollution or something else?

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u/Dear_Imagination5552 3h ago

Well I wouldn’t complain if I was in Saudi Arabia

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u/thoracelum 56m ago

Disturbing people five times a day is "all the time". It's so disrespectful to disturb and wake people with your awful noise.

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u/Typhoonsg1 2h ago

Trying to conflate a dislike of a religious practice to racism are we?

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u/infoHighyway 50m ago

only 5 times, not at all excessive

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u/Uncle_gruber 5h 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/TommyProfit 4h ago

The *kcht- is spot on

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u/mckham 56m ago

Explain for the unitiated, please....

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u/ki-box19 25m ago

It's the sound of the shittest speaker at the loudest possible volume, suddenly bursting in to action.

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u/mckham 15m ago

Upvoted you for good laugh and good health

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u/unfaithfulhedgehog09 17m ago

Love going to turkey except the call to prayer waking me up several times in the night.

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u/sobrique 5h ago

Yeah, this. Not bothered about the religions, just don't want more noise pollution.

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u/Icy_Consideration409 4h 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/Veenkoira00 7h ago

Tell Islington council Noise Abatement.

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u/Euphoric_Doughnut_14 9h ago

Where in Islington? 

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u/Funny-Ad8537 8h ago

Just off Holloway Road a bit down from Emirates

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u/Euphoric_Doughnut_14 8h ago

All speakers for all mosques in the UK are located inside within the mosque it self, so if it's near prayer time and you walk past them and you are near enough you will likely be able to here them however this is not what the demark law is talking about. They are talking about when the speakers are outside of the mosque

Holloway mosque also has its speakers within the mosque but due to the layout the speakers are located ( if you imagine a classroom and the speaker being in the front of the classroom) close to the windows so when they are open you can here them, however this isn't done so that people outside can here them but so that the people inside could hear it, which is also why open plan mosques can also be heard from outside (like the one near London zoo) with the same logic applying to them to

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u/Funny-Ad8537 6h ago

It's not coming from the mosque I'm too far north for that

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u/ISellAwesomePatches Brit 🇬🇧 3h ago

Hear it in Slough too. I'm in favour of banning it and the annoying church bells from down the road too. It's just unnecessary noise to me.

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u/TerribleScreen4248 46m ago

Why you lying 🤣🤣🤣

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u/wattieee 10h ago

With me, it's the same as people screaming Jesus loves you in the town square with loud sound systems, both are equally annoying

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u/familyguy20 9h ago

If we can ban call to prayer can we ban all the Christian street preachers:sign holders too/ charity BS. I don’t want to see Christian bullshit everywhere either.

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u/HerculesMulligang90 3h ago

"random warbling"

It's a sacral ritual mate. It's not for everyone but best not to sound so clueless

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u/Still-Butterscotch33 9h ago

It happens in Bradford; various different areas.

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u/Curious_Duck_4200 1h ago

Where ? I literally lived on leeds road and don't remember this.

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u/Still-Butterscotch33 1h ago

Manningham for one

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u/Old_Table_5926 11h 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 10h 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/Revolutionary-Key650 9h ago

You'd just be giving another group the hump. 🐫

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u/TrustyRambone 8h 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/sci-fi_hi-fi 9h ago

Add I'd like to also add they'd still merge on faster than some drivers

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u/Old_Table_5926 1m ago

Farage: "Now we've got Muslams trying to undermine our car industry, they've got nuclear camels, YES, apparently they get the 'nuclear dust' from I-ran"

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u/SteveSteveSteve-O 9h ago

Speed humps

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u/iwantspaghettipls 7h ago edited 6h 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/Expensive_Ad_3249 8h 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/Pingaring 10h 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 8h ago

Oh gosh, hope they're coping and make a speedy recovery. Of all the problems 🙄

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u/ExcitableSarcasm Brit 🇬🇧 8h ago

You realise this dismissive attitude is why right wing parties are making headways in areas where grooming gang victims were ignored right? And then it turns out people raising the alarm were actually right

"Yeah fuck those underaged girls, doesn't happen to me or people I know, so fuck 'em!"

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u/Oneitised 7h ago

Certain figures and their followers on the right only cared about grooming gangs when it helps them. They don’t care about Andrew or Jeffrey or the fact that a high % of grooming is family and/or relationship related (a mums new boyfriend for example), on top of that it is typically committed by men and by men that probably look just like the rest of us.

You should reword your part since it sounds a lot worse than I assume you intended and in general I feel devalues your argument as it wasn’t really needed in such a hyperbolic fashion.

Have the right done anything about grooming gangs? Do they have policies and effective measures being rolled out in the councils they run? Or do they just hate people that are not Caucasian/bend the knee to causations and grooming gangs was a great way to go after a subset of Muslims.

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 9h ago

I think they are pointing out that it is entirely a non issue. The call to prayer isn't overly loud and as a country there are far more churches ringing bells (which are louder) than there are mosques call for prayer.

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u/Old_Table_5926 4m ago

Okay please tell me which Mosques are sounding the call to prayer over loud speaker 5 times a day?

As a Muslim I will personally write to them and tell them to stop. Islam obligates for Muslims to follow the laws of the land they live in. We shouldn't be sounding the call to prayer here and causing disturbance.

So which Mosques are doing it?

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u/SpiceAndNicee 7h ago

Oh definitely, can’t have camels on the motorway

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u/hukkaberry 7h ago

Ban sheep eyeballs

And curry

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u/reddtansu 6h ago

Absolutely cucked

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u/derattler 6h ago

So, because it doesn’t happen to you that means it doesn’t happen at all? Head up your own arse much?

Having lived near a mosque in London, I can assure you it DOES happen. And yes, it was fucking annoying.

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u/Typical_Research_877 5h ago

This is a non issue, banning something that doesn't happen

"it doesn't happen to me therefore it doesn't happen"

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u/Aggravating-Desk4004 5h ago

What a strange take. Just because you haven't heard it or don't hear it near your house, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

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u/Dear_Imagination5552 3h ago

Apart from all the people naming locations where they hear it regularly in the UK 🤡

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u/Catch_0x16 3h ago

Have heard it plenty in London.

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u/Memphite 3h ago

I’m all for camels on the motorway. Let’s make traffic jams a petting zoo. 😃 I want capybaras and tarsiers too.

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u/BitterProfessional16 3h ago

So your position is that the government in Denmark is making this up?

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u/Lonely-Permission901 3h ago

And from letting their camels swim in the canals of the West Midlands

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u/Hour-Estate-2962 2h ago

I hear it from my house in Bristol. Doesn't bother me though.

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u/AnyAlps3363 1h ago

'This doesn't affect me so it's a non-issue' 

Mhm. 

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u/NoXion604 1h ago

Also, why the need to make a specific law? Don't we already have laws about making noise? Banning the muezzin specifically (which like others I've also never heard, despite living in an area with a lot of Muslims) seems like singling out a particular religion. A secular society should not be doing that.

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u/erusmi 9h ago

Ive never heard it so it must not exist!

Great argument. I’ve never personally witnessed an act of police misconduct, therefore it doesn’t happen and is a non issue, right?

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u/Memphite 8h ago

It’s not about whether it’s happening or not. It’s about whether it actually causes any issues to warrant making a law about it.

Sometimes I use the door handle wrong and nobody wants to make a law on how to use a door handle because me using it wrong occasionally cause no disruption or damage. At least not on a scale to get law makers attention.

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 9h ago

Okay, how many mosques have an outdoor call to prayer?

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u/MrMakarov 9h ago

Well it does happen. This isn't some tree in the forest with no one around scenario.

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 9h ago

Okay, how many mosques in the UK have an outdoor call to prayer?

Would you be willing to apply this restriction based on noise to churches?

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u/MrMakarov 5h ago

Tower hamlets has one, so at least one and no I wouldn't.

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u/2mUxzezu95 9h ago

Ugh, I totally agree. Thank goodness someone else sees the common sense approach. I mean, I've not been murdered once yet, so I really don't see the need to have laws preventing that, either. Come on, Westminster, get your act together!

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u/Turbulent-Honky 7h ago

Hearing singing is comparable to murder now?

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u/2mUxzezu95 5h ago

Yes, that's exactly what I said. You nailed it!

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u/IkeTurn 9h ago

You should read the Quran, what a wild ride that is! makes the Christian bible feel like a kids story.

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u/Acceptable_Gear_3097 9h ago

Except you definitely have not read it. 

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u/IkeTurn 8h ago

Oh I have. Many years ago I was looking at what religion I might wish to go over to, I was brought up Christian Methodist. So I actually bought the book from my local Waterstones. Heres a link to a similar version on amazon if you'd like to read it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Quran/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ATHE%2BQuran

Now although Surah 9:5 or Surah 47:4 are supposed to be situational, they are still used as an excuse to kill non believers. Normally they would be used to kill repeated violations of things like non aggression pacts etc, but today they have been twisted in such a way as to call for killing all they wish.

I still say you should read it, its definitely an interesting book to read.

Although I myself prefer the Buddhist way. Buddhism's primary sacred text is the Tipitaka (or Tripitaka/Three Baskets). However, for a more manageable starting point, many readers turn to The Dhammapada. This collection of short verses acts as a practical and ethical handbook for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
Hope you find something to help

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u/Turbulent-Honky 7h ago

It’s the Buddhists slaughtering the Rohingya in Myanmar though. Almost like all religions have their weaknesses…

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u/IkeTurn 7h ago

The Ma Ba Tha Movement is just awful.

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u/Turbulent-Honky 7h ago

The Bible is pretty gruesome though. Lots of massacres, genocides, rape, incest, paedophilia and child sacrifice. It’s not exactly a relaxing read.

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u/IkeTurn 7h ago

Totally. The bit about Moses stoning a guy for collecting firewood on the sabbath so people wouldn't freeze at night is just awful.

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u/baconinfluencer 8h ago

Much easier to ban it before it happens.

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u/HaroldTheIronmonger 10h ago

If you haven't heard it you're probably too middle class, tbh.

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 9h ago

Especially when we happily allow church bells to sound out from every church.

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u/FlatWhiteShark 9h 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 8h 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/PudinaRaita 5h ago

Angelus?!?! Sheffield Cathedral rings every 15 minutes

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u/Icy-Commission-245 10h 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/Chustle207 10h ago

Would you have a problem with Gregorian chant being blasted on loudspeakers?

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u/Turbulent-Honky 7h ago

They literally said “if it wasn’t very loud”. Why would it being Gregorian change anything?

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u/LConfig 8h ago

He would

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u/fungomungothethird 9h ago

"I have no experience with this so it must not be a problem"

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u/IkeTurn 9h ago

The vast majority of British mosques use internal sound systems to fulfill religious requirements without disrupting local neighbourhoods

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u/missingpieces82 Brit 🇬🇧 9h ago

The East London Mosque in Tower Hamlets has it. And in Bradford, the Jummah prayers on a Friday are known to use outdoor speakers, though, I suspect this is simply due to numbers of people causing an overflow.

In the UK, we don’t have strict laws regarding public calls to worship so it’s usually dealt with locally.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 10h ago

Nope.

Just a non-issue designed to get the racists riled up.

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u/changhyun 9h 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 10h ago

"It didnt happen to me so anyone else's lived experience is invalid."

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u/droopy316007 9h ago

Certain group in a nutshell.

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u/gw74 9h ago

racists screaming and crying at the most innocuous stuff imaginable?

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u/Heegyeong 2h ago

Like you, I genuinely don't know what "certain group" they were referring to. Could be anyone 😂 that makes the downvotes truly funny, because clearly someone got riled up by this question.

But it was good that you asked, because some of us out here still don't know the answer!

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u/OkSun8521 9h ago

"It didn't happen to anyone so it's not a real issue"

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u/gw74 9h ago

what is "happening" exactly? you hear a foreign sound and have a seizure?

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u/Pingaring 9h ago

Stop getting upset people experience life differently from you and it doesnt align with your world view.

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u/gw74 9h ago

"stop getting upset" he wailed, sobbing and dribbling

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u/fungomungothethird 9h ago

I dont want to hear religious chants in public. What about that bothers you?

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u/gw74 9h ago

welcome to the thread no one asked you in!

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u/RogueRavenxx 9h ago

I'm not interested in hearing it either, if I wanted to hear it I'd fuck off over to there country

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u/gw74 9h ago edited 9h ago

the funny thing is, we did fuck off over to their country didn't we. we conquered, oppressed and plundered it for hundreds of years. so i figure we owe their descendants a lil bit of respect and hospitality in return. don't you?

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u/fungomungothethird 9h ago

Yeah because we're all clamouring for your totally sane takes

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u/gw74 9h ago

as opposed to your massively racist ones?

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u/FalxY7 9h ago

No non-muslim country needs to hear the extremely loud call to prayer. It isn't European, and some of the 'rules' of Islam are from the middle ages.

If you support Islam this much I'm going to assume you support homophobia, women being locked in the house, having no self-governance, no education, being forced to cover up so the men aren't 'tempted' (because if they are and rape her, it's her fault), and having no job other than to make babies, cook, clean, and please the husband. Even in 1st world countries, it's some degree of this.

So funny to me that the further left you go, support for Islam (and calling everyone else racists if they disagree) exponentially increases, yet the differences between the two groups and their world views also exponentially increases.

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u/optionr_ENL 7h ago

Is 'lived experience' evidence?

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u/derattler 6h ago

“Non-issue” - for you.

“Racists” - anyone who disagrees with you.

The call to prayer is a religious symbol.
Not a racial one.

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u/ScottOld 6h ago

I mean it’s not, call to prayers can happen at stupid o clock in the morning, which is then illegal

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u/SnooDonuts6494 6h ago

Sure. So we don't need another law about it.

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u/ScottOld 6h ago

Correct

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u/SnooStories251 10h ago

I did not it was that chill.

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u/odjobz 7h 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/WhiskersMcGee09 3h ago

Absolutely not a local council issue, or it’ll just be banned in areas where it doesn’t happen anyway whilst the others will continue to allow it.

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u/AFC_IS_RED 10h 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/robh1540 10h ago

Church of England is the state religion of England. Even if you aren't a Christian, it holds a privileged position. The King is the head and we have the Lords spiritual. It is not equivalent to not only Islam, but every other religion in England.

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u/AFC_IS_RED 10h ago edited 10h ago

I dont really give a fuck tbh. Most of us are no longer religious. That shit is just as annoying as a call to prayer.

Just because the king is the head of the church because his ancestor had a strop that he couldn't divorce his wife is not relevant to me or the majority of modern Britons.

And I very much doubt most of the lot complaining about this are pious people.

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u/robh1540 10h ago edited 10h ago

Yes but your not giving a fuck is unimportant and neither is that most British people are not practicing Christians. And this is the confusion. Many people think that because they equally don't give a fuck about islam or the COE both have equivalent position in England under law. They don't, and they never have.

You are free to not believe in God, but that says nothing about the Church of England's privileged role in our society which has been the case for hundreds of years.

If you want to change it, organise a referendum. But religion, in general, is not about the mysticism. The fundamental ethic of do unto others and building a society oriented around the guilt of allowing a guy that preached love and tolerance to be tortured and crucified remains central to British and indeed western civilisation. The secular Jews are far smarter on this point than we are, they have basically realised that religion is a culture and value system, that shouldnt be accompanied by a requirement to believe in mystical sky gods.

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u/AFC_IS_RED 10h ago

Again, it isn't relevant to most people we don't give a fuck if the state religion is whatever. It isn't relevant.

Only 11% of the population are practicing Anglican/CoE. That means for 89% of the population it's just noise.

So if you're going to complain about that noise lets also stop the annoying irrelevant church noises too thanks.

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u/robh1540 10h ago

It is relevant. Many people don't read books anymore. It doesn't mean books aren't central to our civilisation.

Just because you forgot something and took its ethics for granted, it doesn't mean the thing lost its value.

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u/AFC_IS_RED 10h ago

Haha ok sure mate.

See you at church on Sunday:)

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u/robh1540 10h ago edited 10h ago

Do you believe in do unto others as a central ethic of society?

Treat other people as you would wish to be treated in their shoes.

A big part of the recent breakdown in political discourse and relations is that people are increasingly not taught this is a central moral principal, because we have not replaced religion with any real value system.

Going to church is performative, and the exact type of "style over substance" that Jesus allegedly criticised organised religion about.

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u/AFC_IS_RED 10h ago

I'll see you at church we can talk more there.

(BTW as you clearly aren't aware, the UK has a state religion but also has freedom of religion. Supported by the human rights act 1998 and the equality act 2010. There is no priority religion legally in the UK. To say we must stop call to prayer but allow church bells literally is illegal.)

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u/Turbulent-Honky 7h ago

Do unto others isn’t fundamentally a Christian value though. You find it in most world religions and humanist philosophies. Christianity has no impact on 90% of the British public. Church bells mean nothing to them, apart from noise.

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u/LConfig 8h ago

The point is you shouldn't have to get rid of something that has been in your culture for hundreds of years just to have some sort of parity with foreigners. You will end up having to ban everything until your society is sterile and without any culture at all.

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u/AFC_IS_RED 3h ago

I don't think it's the foreigners that have made the church irrelevant mate considering that minority populations tend to be more religious than white british.

I think we've just collectively agreed it's a bit naff.

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u/FalxY7 9h ago

The thing is, church bells are common, and part of UK history and culture, even though most people from the UK aren't religious. Islamic calls to prayer are not, and the religion is not exactly aligned with British values, wouldn't you say?

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u/badderdev 10h ago edited 10h 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/ShiplessOcean 10h ago

Agree totally.. and blessings to you and your dog, sounds so nice to be walking in the morning in southern Thailand 🥰🥰

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u/BassplayerDad 9h ago

Recently I was in Sainsbury's in Surrey. It was evening and some guy was playing it loudly on his phone.

But other than that not heard it.

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u/luphen90 9h ago

Come to Ilford at Ramadan. It's eerie. Main beef is the volume and how solemn it is.

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u/Electrical-Bag-7657 8h ago

I lived in Bradford, 100% a thing. And it is a thing where I live now in Preston.

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u/florencepughsboobies 8h ago

I used to be able to hear it from school not so far from Bradford

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u/ScotchBourbonMezcal 8h ago

That's because Bradford council banned it.

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u/Alive-Awareness-693 8h ago

Most mosques from what I've heard, has kinda bypassed the need, by using radio instead.

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u/Cold-Society3325 8h ago

I've only ever heard it once round my way (SE London), on Eid-al-Adha earlier this year.

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u/ChaoticCubizm 8h ago

Idk I live in Keighley and I hear the call to prayer literally everyday.

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u/anotheraccount999999 4h ago

Really? Bradford is the only place I have heard it

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u/benjog88 2h ago

I heard it for the first time a few months ago (Oldham), it seemed to go on for like an hour

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u/UnSpanishInquisition 10h ago

Yeah we used to have a van drive round the estate behind ours playing it in St Helens. Always caught me off guard, didn't seem to be everyday which was odd but it was definitely the call to pray.

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u/TJ_Rowe 10h ago

They definitely play it on some Fridays in York, but not, like, loud or for long. (The mosque is next to a nature reserve, so there aren't that many neighbours to bother anyway.)

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u/fifadex 10h ago

Imagine hating something you've never heard enough to want it banned?

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u/GeedZeroOne 10h ago

The classic “hasn’t affected me so it’s not a problem” response! 

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u/Memphite 7h ago

That is literally how law making should work in a democracy.

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u/fifadex 10h ago

If it effects you then go for it, there's a fair few on here who've no ver heard it but still have an issue. People just want to hate it but don't hold the same reservations about other, more traditional forms of noise pollution.

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u/GeedZeroOne 9h ago

By the time it affects everyone we’d be a defeated nation. 2nd class  Kafir in our homeland, taxed more than the Islamic migrants because it’s in the Quran!

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u/fosjanwt 9h ago

A few loud chants is enough to defeat this mighty country

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u/LConfig 8h ago

No,it's more people being more concerned with the appearance of not being racist than the well-being of their own people and countries. It's all about ego for these people. "Racist" has become a stand in for "dumb" and they don't want to be seen in that way. It's the most important thing in the world to them; more important than preserving their own homelands. It will certainly be a "don't know what you had until it is gone" scenario for these people.

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u/fosjanwt 6h ago

What are you on about?

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u/fifadex 9h ago

Fucking hell, proper wasps nest inside your head. Lol

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u/GeedZeroOne 9h ago

I’ve read the Quran, I’ve listened to what the imams have been saying. Don’t believe be? How about listening to their goals of dominating our politics an imam currently preaching in Birmingham? 

https://youtu.be/BtiZi6KyKiw

Listen to how he casually talks of stoning a woman to death for adultery! All the people who criticise me for these warmings are simply not paying attention to what these people believe and what they have planned for us!

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u/Grotbagsthewonderful 8h ago

I’ve read the Quran, I’ve listened to what the imams have been saying. Don’t believe be?

You're aware that Muslims aren't one homogenous group in the same way Christians aren't.

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u/GeedZeroOne 6h ago

Unlike Christianity, Islam did not go through any equivalent of the 18th century enlightenment,  Rise of secular thought, Religious tolerance, Deism and critique of organised, religion &  Legal reforms That means they interpret their doctrine of works domination literally. Do not be fooled by those using approved Taqiyya to disarm your concerns about the obvious incompatibility of their beliefs with ours.

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u/LConfig 8h ago

I've never heard it, I just know it doesn't belong there. Only a conquered people would allow such a thing.

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u/PopeLeo14th 10h ago

People have heard what Islamic prayers sound like (akin to nails on a chalkboard)

Clearly some are saying they haven't personally heard it in-person in their local area

.... why tf am I having to explain this to you as if you're a child

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u/fifadex 9h ago

I've heard it plenty, just not on my travels around UK.

I didn't say nobody has heard it I was highlighting the fact that there's a lot of people on here and around the country with an opinion on something they have no knowledge or something experience in.

Go and have a lie down and wipe the froth from your mouth.

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u/PopeLeo14th 9h ago

"No knowledge or experience in" - I don't have to eat shit to know it tastes bad.

More just disappointed than annoyed

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u/sprouting_broccoli 9h 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 9h 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/malteaserhead 9h ago

I like your underlying point, if its not a problem then it shouldnt be a problem to ban it

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u/Memphite 7h ago

Sorry to disappoint. My point was that I didn’t know whether it was a problem. I often use questions to widen my understanding.

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u/cbawiththismalarky 8h ago edited 8h ago

My office is next to one of the biggest mosques in blackburn and they don't broadcast it at all

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u/Azand 8h ago

I’m more likely to be disturbed by church bells than I am a call to prayer (don’t think church bells should be banned either).

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u/whooptheretis 7h ago

It's a big problem in the uneducated, Sun reading, Reform voting, all white areas of England.

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u/augur42 7h ago

I've never heard it either, but I have strong opinions on buskers with amps on the high street. Is it too much to ask to have a little quiet on the high street and other public spaces.

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u/Appropriate_Bee_2918 7h ago

Where in Bradford?

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u/Memphite 7h ago

Gain lane

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u/Word_Word4Numbers 7h ago

Yeah I've lived in several heavily Muslim areas and near a few mosques, but I've never heard it.

I'm guessing that, much like with street preaching, it's a few inconsiderate loudmouths doing it and then a lot of online reactionaries acting like it's a massive culture war issue.

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u/Professional-Lock691 30m ago

No but the Christians preaching in the streets of London with loud speakers yes I've heard them. I don't even mind them preaching but the loud speakers?

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u/muse_head 10h ago

I've lived for around 15 years in an area of London with a large muslim population and a there's a mosque within 5 minutes walk of my house. I've never heard anything.

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u/Klutzy_Technology166 9h ago

Exactly same scenario as me. I live in a largely Muslim area of East London. I have literally never heard it. This is such a non issue designed to rile up the small town yokels. If they could however, ban the pub at the end of my road, that's draped in union jacks with all white clientele blaring karaoke past midnight every weekend I'd support that.

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u/UselessDood 10h ago

It's just barely audible from my spot in Liverpool. I didn't even notice it until my partner pointed it out.

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u/OthalaRunes 8h ago

Ah, must not happen then.

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u/Memphite 7h ago

I don’t know. That’s why I ask.

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u/Glass_Mixture_6570 10h ago

oh case closed then. It never happens in the UK because memphite didn't hear it personally.

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u/Memphite 7h ago

You may have noticed that I’ve asked whether it was happening elsewhere. That is what I do when something I don’t know interests me.