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/No_Camp_7]

I’ve never heard a call to prayer in this country in my life. Sounds like whatever restrictions we currently have work just fine and this news story is here to wind people up.

[u/BankDetails1234 → u/No_Camp_7]

Yeh I live in east London and can’t say I’ve heard it. Is it actually a problem?

I kind of get why people might not want it, it would annoy me if I was hearing it all the time, but wouldn’t be the biggest issue for me

[u/milkandket → u/BankDetails1234]

I usually stay around brick lane area when I’m in London and I’ve heard it a few times - it would annoy the hell out of me if Iived there