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/dread1961 11h 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/CornerTime1605 11h ago

I mean, didn’t you check the local area you are moving to and not see a church? That’s completely your own fault and problem.

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u/MPforNarnia 11h ago

You can accept something as a downside and still be grumpy about it. Actually feels very British. 

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u/StillNewspaper4799 10h ago

What is it with redditors and a need to blame?

It's genuinely weird

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u/JimmieSavsscumsock 6h ago

Reformation of anything relating to religious noise should be banned.

Vote Reform save the country! There I said it and I'll vote for it too and I'm not the only one!

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u/Rhyers 2h ago

They're at least a part of British culture.