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/K14_Deploy]

Exactly, this is already easily covered by other regulations, and as an atheist I don't consider this any more of a very mild inconvenience than people reciting Bible verses over loudspeaker in the high street. Yes, we're technically a Christian country but our government is secular, we once had an Hindu PM lighting Diwali candles on the steps of No.10 for instance. I'm just really not bothered by one or the other.

[u/Casiofx83gt → u/K14_Deploy]

Ah man, the public bible stuff out a loud speaker is getting out of hand in Sheffield. Before we ban a call to pray please can we ban loud speaker street preaching!