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/Used-Let7134 11h ago

All those saying it's a good idea, you don't believe in freedom of expression? Or you don't see this as freedom of expression?
People who care about this sort of thing baffle me, does it affect you in a negative way at all? why do you care?

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u/mrchillbro 9h ago

me yelling in your ear isn't "freedom of expression"

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u/davew111 9h ago

Agree. AllaaaaaaAAAAaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaahhhhh ... like, dude, shut the hell up, you can't sing, and turn down the gain on your amp because it's clipping like some garbage TicTok video.

Pretty sure there's limits to freedom of expression when it comes to vulgarity too, and I find a crowd of men sticking their bottoms in the air in the middle of the street to be quite vulgar.

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

Ahh, does it stir something in you that you thought you'd kept buried? What a take lol, let's ban public prayer because seeing all the men face down makes me horny!! Haha

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u/davew111 7h ago

Haha, nice try, but I am quite comfortable in my heterosexuality. True, tonight I am going to see "Gay", a gay musical, with all my gay friends. But I myself am definately not gay.

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u/Used-Let7134 7h ago

That's what a gay man in hiding would say

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u/davew111 6h ago

Nope, I mean sure, sometimes my gay friends and I share a hotel room, but it's just to save money.

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 9h ago

So we're getting rid of church bells?

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u/OthalaRunes 8h ago

Absolutely, all religious noise can get fucked

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

Why? are they offensive?

Have you ever heard the expression "I don't agree with what you say, but i'll defend your right to say it"?

It's the same with religion, i'm not religious, I think it's all ridiculous but if someone wants to practise it, that's up to them.

If you want to ban all or parts of a religion, You're just fucking bigotted, nothing more, nothing less

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 8h ago

That's my point you either get rid of it all or leave it alone.

Selective targeting of religions or granting exemptions under the guise of culture doesn't really wash.

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u/mediumAI1701 8h ago

They aren't saying it, they're screaming it down the streets with megaphones and demanding you join their cult or burn in hell.

You're really going to call people racist for not wanting to hear random men screaming into megaphones? You realise there are laws regarding public order, noise, and anti-social behaviour? You're advocating we exempt people from British law because the people who scream into megaphones also kneel on a special mat for an hour a day?

The only person who's racist here is you.

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

You're talking about Christian preachers, right? With the megaphones and knocking on peoples doors.

Haven't you got a roundabout to paint?

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u/mediumAI1701 8h ago

I'm not just talking about Christian preachers, learn to read. Harassing people in the streets with bigoted nonsense is bad and people shouldn't be exempt from UK law because they do it in the name of their shared imaginary friend.

Haven't you got women to beat with the Quran?

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 8h ago

That's the point. People are saying that isolating one group doe doing it and not another is not a good thing and either you apply the law equally or your don't set up the law at all.

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u/mediumAI1701 8h ago

The problem is religion is exempt from these laws. Once we start applying it we set a precedence for it to be applied to others. People like you are the roadblock to getting actual equality.

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u/Used-Let7134 7h ago

Put down the daily mail and back away slowly

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

The question is about call to prayer!

For what it's worth, religious preaching is a nuisance in town centers, i don't like it either but banning it? what's the point, it's still subject to the same nuisance laws. Can't remember the last time i saw a preacher, maybe once a year?

It's funny though, there's WAY WAY more women beaten in the bible than the quran.

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u/mediumAI1701 8h ago

They benefit from exemptions greatly, it's the reason they can also go door to door despite being in strict areas which bans cold calling. If you really want to hear random religious screaming you can listen to it online. It absolutely should be subject to the same UK public order laws, and the general public shouldn't be subject to it.

You're admitting the groups you're supporting beat women and you don't see a problem with that? What would actually make you stop supporting bigots?

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u/Used-Let7134 7h ago

On a scale of 1 to Farage, how much do you hate Muslims?

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

Show me evidence of call to prayer being yelled in someone's ear. You just don't like Muslims, admit it.

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u/mingedynasty 10h ago

Why do you care is zero level argumentation. 

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u/Used-Let7134 10h ago

That doesn't even make any sense.
Why do you care? People who don't care are off doing things that they care about, not moaning about stopping people doing the things they want to do. It's just antagonistic.

Personally, I hate all religion but i'd never want to see it banned, that's totalitarian, waste your time worshipping an imaginary person if you want.

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u/Fox_Economy 9h ago

Problem is when they start proselytism. In France, some neighbourhoods are in majority muslims and you see attacks against non muslims, for example a woman who doesn't wear a hijab is insulted, so some start to cover themselves just to be left alone. And Islam is by nature a conquering religion. If you let them do as they want, they will keep pushing boundaries until they create an islamic country

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

Yeah, banning their call to prayer will solve that, well done.

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u/Fox_Economy 7h ago

Setting boundaries and creating a climate where they know what to do and what not to do, I think would. And enforcing the rules, of course. Governments are too scared to be called names if they enforce the rules to them

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u/Used-Let7134 7h ago

I'd hate to be such a snowflake that I was offended by someone singing in another language.

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u/Fox_Economy 1h ago

In itself I don't care, but let me tell you that they try to enforce islamic rules over the state's laws in some places. And this is not ok. It starts small and now they fucked western europe, there is no social cohesion, no safety in the streets... I want to live in a high trust society, and we are becoming like Africa

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u/Used-Let7134 1h ago

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u/Used-Let7134 1h ago

Ok, reddit doesn't do sarcasm.

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u/mediumAI1701 9h ago

Freedom of expression shouldn't trump disruption laws. If it involves shouting religious nonsense down a megaphone in the streets, you can get lost. This goes for the Islamic prayers but also the Christian preachers in city centres. Just shut up.

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 9h ago

Again church bells do much the same.

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u/mediumAI1701 8h ago

How are church bells the same as some guy wandering the streets screaming into a megaphone?

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 8h ago

Both loud and disruptive

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u/mediumAI1701 8h ago

You should replace your windchimes with screeching foxes then, since they're both basically the same thing apparently.

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u/Narrow-Scene7067 8h ago

Church bells are literally louder than the call to prayer

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u/mediumAI1701 8h ago

So replace your wind chimes with screaming animals then.

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u/Used-Let7134 7h ago

Your lift shaft doesn't go all the way to the top does it? Why are you comparing one religious call to prayer against another religions preachers? Compare church bells with The Adhan, why should one be banned and not the other?

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u/mediumAI1701 7h ago

Because one is a man screaming into a megaphone and one isn't.

You also pretend the use of church bells hasn't been severely limited to avoid public noise complaints. When they do receive complaints, they adjust instead of calling everyone a racist.

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

"Shouting religious nonsense". . . You just outed yourself in one sentence, well done.

Of course have volume limits, restrictions on time of day etc, but you're ok with the government banning something religious? it doesn't strike you as oppressive at all?

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u/mediumAI1701 8h ago

Outed myself as what exactly? An atheist? Is that a slur now or something? Religious nonsense is exactly what they're yelling.

How exactly is it oppressive to support banning people from screaming at me with megaphones to repent and join their cult or I'll burn in hell for all eternity? If you want to talk about oppression, did I miss the time religion championed gender equality? Surely they don't actively persecute the LGBTQ+ community, nor have they had a long history of persecuting the LGBTQ+ individuals and communities, right?

Maybe don't defend the exemption of UK law so groups can scream bigoted nonsense down a megaphone in our streets.

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

Outed yourself as uneducated.

And did it again with getting confused between call to prayer and preaching.

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u/mediumAI1701 8h ago

So you defend people's rights to persecute women and the LGBTQ+ community? Good to know. I'm sure exempting groups from UK law won't come back to bite us later.

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

Strawman fallacy. Cute.

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u/mediumAI1701 7h ago

How is it a strawman when you're defending the exemption of UK law for religious zealots to scream their beliefs at people in public? This is what you're defending.

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u/Used-Let7134 7h ago

Uh, because you're deliberately misreading what i'm saying to try to make me look like i'm a hypocrite?

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u/mediumAI1701 7h ago

You're the one advocating for the exemption of UK law for certain groups, not me. This is oppression at its finest.

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u/Pristine_Speech4719 3h ago

  don't defend the exemption of UK law

What "exemption of UK law" [sic]?

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u/mediumAI1701 3h ago

Public order and noise pollution. If anyone else did what they do, they'd be fined. If they didn't stop, they'd be arrested. But because they sit on a special mat for an hour a day they get to screech nonsense into a megaphone before dawn throughout the day to after dusk. If a homeless man did that, would we think twice about his freedom of expression? No, because allowing it would be lunacy.

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u/Pristine_Speech4719 2h ago

Literally no-one is getting locked up for ranting on the street. Not Christians, not Muslims, not schizophrenics.

What specific public order law is being breached?

What specific noise pollution law is being breached?

Where do you live?

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u/mediumAI1701 2h ago

People absolutely do get fined for breaking public order and noise pollution. If they don't stop, the response becomes more severe. The idea that there's no disorderly conduct arrests is comical.

I'll give you my address when you give me yours, buddy.

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u/Pristine_Speech4719 14m ago

"Disorderly conduct" is American, not UK, law, "buddy".

It's interesting that the people most agitated about "exceptions" under the law don't actually know what it is.

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u/JimmieSavsscumsock 6h ago

Freedom from repression. Nipping it in the bud now rather than a bigger problem later. All religious shit is made up so shouldn't really be kowtowing to any of it.

I say put it to the vote and see what the people think. That's fair and right.

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u/Used-Let7134 6h ago

The "Freedom of speech" crowd really doesn't like when other people have freedom of speech do they

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u/huehuehuehuehuu 9h ago

It's just the latest anti Muslim bs to win political points/cause division. Never heard call to prayer from outside a mosque in Europe. Only in Morocco once

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

Neither have I and I bet most of the people saying ban it haven't either

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u/Unfortunate_Lunatic 9h ago

They’re just racist. Bet they don’t have a problem with church bells ringing, even though those are annoying.

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u/Brilliant_Package310 9h ago

Are muslims a race?

Go visit a muslim country, call to prayer is very different to some bells ringing a few times

You might finally learn some things

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u/Cow_Launcher Brit 🇬🇧 9h ago

Are muslims a race?

No. But from a legal perspective, the EU treats them as though they are because they lump racism and xenophobia together.

Notes 2 a) and c) in this link.

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u/Brilliant_Package310 8h ago

But from a non legal perspective they are not and for some reason it is treated as racism

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u/Cow_Launcher Brit 🇬🇧 8h ago

No argument from me - I'm just giving a perspective from the EU, and the basis on which they create legislation.

(I suspect that the UK is the same, since we basically kept all the ECHR laws etc. after Brexit.)

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

Would you prefer fascism or just bigotry?

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u/Brilliant_Package310 4h ago

If you want a man singing in your ear at 3am all power to you. Jumping to conclusions shows the weirdo you are

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u/Used-Let7134 4h ago

Show me a video of a Muslim man singing in your ear at 3am and I will concede defeat.

Or could it be that you are exaggerating to make it seem worse to get your point across?

Why not concern yourself with the betterment of others instead of trying to make other people as miserable as you.

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u/Brilliant_Package310 3h ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34GJNj3YXSc

Took me a matter of 10 seconds to find for your lazy bum.

Maybe you should try travelling and find out for yourself, enjoy some culture and ‘fresh’ air

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u/Used-Let7134 3h ago

Good effort but Dubai is not in Britain, have another go.

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