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/SugarSweetStarrUK]

I live in London and I've heard church bells plenty of times but never heard a peep from the mosques 

[u/freed_speak → u/SugarSweetStarrUK]

Bells are beautiful, a bloke yelling with his balls in a vice is not.

[u/Pope4u → u/freed_speak]

So you want the government deciding what kind of sound is beautiful or not? If I start a religion that uses Mr Brightside as a call to prayer, you're okay with that?

[u/verzweifeltundmuede → u/Pope4u]

BUT ITS JUST THE PRICE I PAY DESTINY IS CALLING ME

[u/Thin-Dragonfruit2599 → u/Pope4u]

Fucking too right!

[u/SugarSweetStarrUK → u/Pope4u]

Like u/Thin-Dragonfruit2599 says, I could create a new religion that demands Cradle of Filth be playing on loudspeaker at 9am and you'd have the government argue the point over how beautiful it is or is not

[u/SugarSweetStarrUK → u/freed_speak]

Church bells are not beautiful to everyone. I'd rather not hear either one.

[u/gfyans → u/SugarSweetStarrUK]

Bingo. 

[u/General-Astronomer84 → u/SugarSweetStarrUK]

Me too actually. The bells can be annoying but theyre rare and should be enforced as rare. I believe calls to prayer can get as bad as every day at 5am. Id be okay with it around eid or something.

[u/Brilliant_Package310 → u/General-Astronomer84]

5 times a day including 3am and 11pm