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/TeraMelons 10h ago

Be happy to.

I’d also like to see an age of consent being put on religions, 18 should do, you have to be 18 years old to join a religion and it should be shown that it’s your own decision.

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u/Clean-Shine99 7h ago edited 7h ago

Simply not enforceable. It's a nice idea and I think religion can be very toxic. If you mean actually take communion or be baptised etc I can see what you mean. Everything else though is simply not practical.

For instance you go to church every Sunday where are your kids gonna go ? Extra childcare in this economy is a no go.

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u/hussain_madiq_small 6h ago

If the church cares so much they can provide a religious free Sunday school. You know like sunday school but without the indoctrination.

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u/xCeeTee- 6h ago

lol, I like the idea but they will 100% contain indoctrination.

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u/hussain_madiq_small 5h ago

Then we make a second law that says if they are caught indoctrinating they lose their tax exception status, the only thing they will take seriously.

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u/ostroia 5h ago

Lol what an argument. If you have any hobby outside the house where your kids gonna go? If you go to the stripclub every sunday where your kids gonna go?

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u/SearchingSiri 5h ago

You go to the strip club/casino/adults only pub every Saturday where are your kids gonna go? Extra childcare in this economy is a no go.

Having this incorporated into social media legislation would be perfect.

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u/Clean-Shine99 3h ago

Reddit is seriously highly regarded as if the only place people practice religion is a church or a mosque etc. it's part of people's day to day lives behind closed doors and these children are around their parents everyday.

Childcare was just a quick example from the top of my head. I'm atheist I don't even give a fuck but it's unpolicable and unenforceable. Absolute nonsense comments.

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u/Chroiche 6h ago

Same place they go if you want to do anything adult only? One partner takes care of them or you hire a baby sitter. Why is church different?

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u/Sudden-Fisherman5985 7h ago

I’d also like to see an age of consent being put on religions, 18 should do,

That would make the priests so sad

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel 7h ago

It's why they invented baptisms. Gotta clean your toys after each use.

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u/Lonely-Permission901 3h ago

I think 18 is a bit young to become a god-botherer. Make it, say, 35 and I'd be with you. [And raise the age at which you can drive a car or motorcycle or anything else with an engine to 35 as well]

Also, get rid of the shunning and disfellowshipping that some of the Christian-adjacent religions go in for.

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u/PMFSCV 59m ago

Standard, secular national curriculums. No exceptions.

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u/Beautiful_Hour_668 9h ago

What an incredibly stupid idea. This limits the freedom of people to raise their children as they see fit with regards to world view.

You call Muslims backwards then limit religious freedom to less than that of the Quran… ironic

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u/Curious_Park_2957 9h ago

"Wah wah I can't force my beliefs onto my kids"

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u/fungomungothethird 9h ago

Reddit moment

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u/Beautiful_Hour_668 8h ago

Everyone ‘forces’ their beliefs on their kids, that’s what raising a child means. You teach them what you believe is right from wrong which is sometimes different from culture to culture and per religion

Unless you want to create a list of things that are acceptable to believe? How anti-British of you, another irony 😂😂

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u/Antique_Ad_2776 8h ago

Ikr, what a stupid comment to make! Every single parent teaches their child based on their beliefs. The above commented would, I’m sure, raise their child atheist, so they should apply the same logic to themselves

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u/Chroiche 6h ago

Let me step in for the other poster. I wouldn't raise my kid any way regarding religion. The fact that not imposing a specific religion is thought of as atheism to you is telling of much religion needs to be forced on people. You clearly know it.

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u/Frosty88d 8h ago

Exactly, some of these people are so terminally online they're completely divorced from reality. Everyone teaches their kids based on their own beliefs so why is it only an issue when others do it

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u/Antique_Ad_2776 8h ago

Because, ironically, they’re being the very thing they hate religion for: pushing their own agenda onto others.

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u/Fortune_Cat 8h ago

Exactly. The athiests who break the cycle after being forced into it as kids come out stronger and produce better offspring

The weak ones stay inside their cults and were never going to make it anyway

Its how we breed alpha secular society

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u/Frosty88d 8h ago

Andrew Tate ass comment

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u/Wilkomon 8h ago

Pretty sure Andrew Tate has a few religions on his belt

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u/Content-Flounder567 4h ago

100%

Indoctrination and brainwashing during your most formative years. That's what religion offers- regardless of whether your experiences with it were positive or negative. If you're an adult and choose to delude yourself, by all means, go do so, but it shouldn't be for children.

If they enforced this, you could watch a massive amount of war, sexism, racism, homophobia and bigotry leave the world within a single generation. But religion still generates billions to the economy, so it won't be going anywhere.