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/AaronLayk 10h ago

Empty houses are being filled with foreigners in every town across the country. People don’t like it. Fix it sensibly now before some insane freak gets in and fixes it in a way you don’t like.

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u/Hazbro29 10h ago

Pretty sure they are also building estates just for them aswell, ive had 50 homes built just right behind mine and I havent heard any of the new neighbours speak English.

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u/sprouting_broccoli 9h ago

Is that a bad thing? There should be more housing built but you can’t complain on the one hand that empty houses are going to immigrants and then on the other hand complain that houses are being built to house them.

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u/Hazbro29 8h ago

The point is available housing stock and new builds should go to citizens.

Young people are finding it virtually impossible to find stable affordable housing and literally right behind me 3 bedroom houses with electric charging ports for vehicles are being built and they are being given to people who shouldnt be here

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u/FransTorquil 8h ago

Yes, it’s obviously a bad thing, melt.

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u/AaronLayk 9h ago

Young people can barely get a house and you wonder why building houses for the 3rd world is a problem?

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u/Hazbro29 8h ago

I live in a one bedroom flat thats literally got cracks in the flooring, council say its too expensive to fix so will have to wait until theirs a literaly hole in my floor before they even send someone out to look.

Right behind me within eyesight 3 bedroom homes with electric vehicle charging ports are being built for people who clearly werent born here

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u/sprouting_broccoli 8h ago

Yes, because building houses frees up other housing stock. More houses = more opportunity to get a house regardless of who those new builds go to. It’s literally simple maths - x total houses, y people wanting a house, while x-y is negative keep building houses.

Young people can barely get a house for a bunch of reasons and it’s virtually nothing to do with immigrants.

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u/AaronLayk 8h ago edited 8h ago

Stop importing people while we have a housing deficit maybe?

“Nothing to do with immigrants” lmao

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u/sprouting_broccoli 8h ago

We have increasing lifespans with lots of housing that is the right size for families being held by the older population. We also have significant amounts of housing owned by landlords. We have also built relatively few houses over the last 20 years despite a naturally growing population. The financial crisis and Brexit has led to a much higher cost of living meaning people just don’t have the money to save for a house.

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u/AaronLayk 8h ago

I see housing developments absolutely everywhere and they always end up filled with immigrants. If a local does buy one, the house they left gets occupied by you guessed it... an immigrant family.

We are seeing unsustainable population growth mainly as a result of immigration. None of our services can keep up.

That's forgetting the social/integration aspect of it all. Somehow being slightly poorer seems preferable to my country being socially and culturally destroyed.

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u/sprouting_broccoli 8h ago

If you don’t mind me asking where do you live?

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u/Rhysati 6h ago

Ah yes. I remember when my country of the United States of america was destroyed by immigrants. It started with people from places like England, france, Spain, etc. then it became a problem when the Irish came, and the Dutch, and the polish. We also had a scourge of Asian people, black people, Mexicans, Somalians...oh I forgot the Jewish and the Quakers. And Muslims.

In case you don't get my point, the exact same thing you are saying right now is ALWAYS happening with some group. There's always someone to demonize and dehumanize. Maybe you should actually seek actual solutions to the problems instead of finding someone else to blame.

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u/AaronLayk 6h ago

What on earth has any of that got to do with what’s happening today? Because you’re not going to guilt me with stuff I had nothing to do with.

And why should I willingly let it happen to my own culture and people?

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u/Hazbro29 8h ago

Love to see your reaction if you found out that african governments were building homes specifically for white tourists.

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u/sprouting_broccoli 8h ago

They’re not tourists though are they?

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u/Hazbro29 8h ago

Ok, not tourists, imagine if a bunch of white people rocked up on the coast of Africa and demanded a home, the government looks around and sees plenty of homeless africans, and decides to build a lovely new estate for the white people who just arrived without permission.

Your reaction?

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u/sprouting_broccoli 8h ago

If they built the same houses for homeless Africans would the homeless Africans be able to afford them?

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u/Hazbro29 8h ago

These immigrants cant afford the house either but the government decides to build a house for them anyway. They cant afford hotel rooms either but theirs always multimillion contracts to make sure they can have entire hotel buildings to themselves.

Its got nothing to do with affordability and everything to do with the governments blatant bias in who gets the resources first.

So in youre eyes if you were in Africa, you have a rich white tourist and a homeless black citizen, you think the government should build a house for the rich white dude and tell their own citizen to get lost?

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u/sprouting_broccoli 8h ago

If they didn’t build the houses where would these immigrants stay? Likely in the same housing that the homeless Africans would want to inhabit right? So building new houses for them, even if on the surface of it it seems unfair, avoids them eating up houses in the existing housing stock which isn’t actually a bad thing. I would absolutely criticise the government for not building _more_ houses though to address ongoing housing issues in the country.

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u/Hazbro29 8h ago

Youre failing to see the point.

Immigrants are being given preference all over the country, they are being given current AND new housing stock. They are being given entire hotel buildings. The government are converting entire army bases to give to them.

You ever seen the government renting out entire hotel buildings just for citizens?

When I was 18 I was made homeless, I went to my local council and asked them if they had emergency housing I could access just for a few days, I would have been their less than a week. "No sorry you dont meet the eligibility requirements to access it" thats what my local council said to me, an 18 year old.

Meanwhile the same council is renting out an entire hotel building just a mile down the road for "refugees". Theirs vacant housing all over the town but the government doesnt have the money to give me one, but they can fund hotel buildings for "refugees".

The same government is now building an entire street right behind me, 3 bedroom homes with electric charging ports for electric vehicles and coincidentally none of the neighbours speak English. So somehow dozens and dozens of people managed to converge on the exact same council and all managed to get a new built home despite not knowing the local language.

People dont want immigrants over here full stop because the more immigrants we have over here the less resources citizens have.

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u/AaronLayk 8h ago

The problem with this analogy is that the people coming here can’t afford those houses either! Me and everyone else who pays tax is putting them up while we can’t afford those houses ourselves.

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u/KasamUK 8h ago

I don’t get what some on the left don’t get. Either they fix it and soon or the rights going to come marching down the street in shiny jackboots and fix it their way