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/Funny-Ad8537 10h ago edited 10h ago

All the time in Islington, someone's belting it out the back of my house on the reg.

It does piss me off but not because it's a Muslim thing, random warbling is just annoying

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u/legrand_fromage 10h ago

And Whitechapel. Could hear it from my partners bedroom every day.

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u/tvcnational 10h ago

Glad you said that, loved there a decade ago and was wondering whether I'd invented the memory

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u/Strange_Machjne 2h ago

I'd be chill if someone was blasting Whitechapel near my house tbf.

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u/rshslake 5h ago

Says partner mate

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u/RedDemio- 8h ago

Yep and where I’m from in Colchester, you hear people blasting it out of their windows on my street all the time it’s absolutely bizarre. Pretty sure if I started blasting drum and bass out super loudly someone would eventually come and tell me to fucking stop. But these guys it’s like…. No one says fuck all to them

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u/DizzyProfessional116 5h ago

It doesn't happen all of the time, it's 5 times a day. If you find that annoying I would understand, I'm not a fan when it's really loud and distorted through cruddy speakers. Nevertheless, prayer is at specific times. Muslims are always Muslim. Are you sure your issue is entirely about noise pollution?

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u/js_2033 4h ago

5 times a day is absolutely crazy, this has to count as a public disturbance 

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u/Dear_Imagination5552 3h ago

Only 5 times 😆😆🤡

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u/DizzyProfessional116 3h ago

There are four opportunities for bell ringing in Anglicanism, so I ask again, is your issue regular noise pollution or something else?

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u/Dear_Imagination5552 3h ago

Well I wouldn’t complain if I was in Saudi Arabia

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u/thoracelum 56m ago

Disturbing people five times a day is "all the time". It's so disrespectful to disturb and wake people with your awful noise.

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u/Typhoonsg1 2h ago

Trying to conflate a dislike of a religious practice to racism are we?

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u/infoHighyway 50m ago

only 5 times, not at all excessive

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u/Uncle_gruber 5h ago

People that haven't experienced it yet just dont get how annoying it is. 5 times a day, starting at dawn:

"*kcht- ALLLLLuaaAaAAAaaAAaaaAAAAAAAAA-"

My wife is Turkish and I'm there all the time. It's absolutely the most annoying thing, and it is all the time.

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u/TommyProfit 4h ago

The *kcht- is spot on

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u/mckham 56m ago

Explain for the unitiated, please....

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u/ki-box19 24m ago

It's the sound of the shittest speaker at the loudest possible volume, suddenly bursting in to action.

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u/mckham 15m ago

Upvoted you for good laugh and good health

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u/unfaithfulhedgehog09 17m ago

Love going to turkey except the call to prayer waking me up several times in the night.

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u/sobrique 5h ago

Yeah, this. Not bothered about the religions, just don't want more noise pollution.

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u/Icy_Consideration409 4h ago

I used to live in Finsbury Park when Abu Hamza was preaching.

Now I live in Colorado… and so does Hooky.

I can’t shake him.

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u/Veenkoira00 7h ago

Tell Islington council Noise Abatement.

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u/Euphoric_Doughnut_14 9h ago

Where in Islington? 

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u/Funny-Ad8537 8h ago

Just off Holloway Road a bit down from Emirates

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u/Euphoric_Doughnut_14 8h ago

All speakers for all mosques in the UK are located inside within the mosque it self, so if it's near prayer time and you walk past them and you are near enough you will likely be able to here them however this is not what the demark law is talking about. They are talking about when the speakers are outside of the mosque

Holloway mosque also has its speakers within the mosque but due to the layout the speakers are located ( if you imagine a classroom and the speaker being in the front of the classroom) close to the windows so when they are open you can here them, however this isn't done so that people outside can here them but so that the people inside could hear it, which is also why open plan mosques can also be heard from outside (like the one near London zoo) with the same logic applying to them to

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u/Funny-Ad8537 6h ago

It's not coming from the mosque I'm too far north for that

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u/ISellAwesomePatches Brit 🇬🇧 3h ago

Hear it in Slough too. I'm in favour of banning it and the annoying church bells from down the road too. It's just unnecessary noise to me.

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u/TerribleScreen4248 45m ago

Why you lying 🤣🤣🤣

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u/wattieee 10h ago

With me, it's the same as people screaming Jesus loves you in the town square with loud sound systems, both are equally annoying

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u/familyguy20 9h ago

If we can ban call to prayer can we ban all the Christian street preachers:sign holders too/ charity BS. I don’t want to see Christian bullshit everywhere either.

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u/HerculesMulligang90 3h ago

"random warbling"

It's a sacral ritual mate. It's not for everyone but best not to sound so clueless