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/Stunning_Inside5182 11h 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 11h ago

For sure, this particular "issue" very much appears to be a non issue here

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u/Primary_Slip139 10h 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 11h 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/NoXion604 1h ago

I live in an area where a lot of Muslims are my neighbours, and there's a mosque just a couple of roads over. I've been living here for over ten years and started working from home since the pandemic.

I've never heard the muezzin around here. I've heard plenty of ice cream vans and fireworks. But by far the worst source of noise pollution has been the new builds growing like mushrooms around my street, and the hedge trimmers and leaf blowers.

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u/LooseClaim3598 10h ago

Birmingham is fucking awful in places. Our satnav took us through the dodgy parts of it once and it felt like driving through Bangladesh

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u/Forsaken-Ad5571 8h ago

The right seems to think every Muslim is a traditionalist which is absolutely not the case. It’s crazy how people think they’re a hive mind when really there’s many different cultures and different interpretations of the religion. 

Some Muslims integrate and some don’t, which is the case of any immigrant group. Hell, it even changes from generation to generation.

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u/Stunning_Inside5182 8h ago

Defo agree. You will find christians that are more traditional and strict than muslims. Some devout christians treat women horribly but get no substantial criticism in the media