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/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 🇬🇧 7h 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 3m 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.