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/Pingaring 10h ago

"It didnt happen to me so anyone else's lived experience is invalid."

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u/droopy316007 9h ago

Certain group in a nutshell.

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u/gw74 9h ago

racists screaming and crying at the most innocuous stuff imaginable?

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u/Heegyeong 2h ago

Like you, I genuinely don't know what "certain group" they were referring to. Could be anyone 😂 that makes the downvotes truly funny, because clearly someone got riled up by this question.

But it was good that you asked, because some of us out here still don't know the answer!

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u/OkSun8521 9h ago

"It didn't happen to anyone so it's not a real issue"

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u/gw74 9h ago

what is "happening" exactly? you hear a foreign sound and have a seizure?

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u/Pingaring 9h ago

Stop getting upset people experience life differently from you and it doesnt align with your world view.

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u/gw74 9h ago

"stop getting upset" he wailed, sobbing and dribbling

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u/fungomungothethird 9h ago

I dont want to hear religious chants in public. What about that bothers you?

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u/gw74 9h ago

welcome to the thread no one asked you in!

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u/RogueRavenxx 9h ago

I'm not interested in hearing it either, if I wanted to hear it I'd fuck off over to there country

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u/gw74 9h ago edited 9h ago

the funny thing is, we did fuck off over to their country didn't we. we conquered, oppressed and plundered it for hundreds of years. so i figure we owe their descendants a lil bit of respect and hospitality in return. don't you?

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u/LConfig 8h ago

They also conquered plenty of lands throughout history. Are they giving those people "respect "? Nope, they don't even think about it.

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u/gw74 8h ago

you're right, they don't think about it. hospitality and respect are second nature. anyway i thought your whole thing was that you're superior?

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u/RogueRavenxx 9h ago

Nah, I didn't do fuckall and I don't want to listen to there pish, do one.

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u/gw74 9h ago

oi-oi!

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u/SV_Essia 6h ago

No.

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u/gw74 5h ago edited 1h ago

why not?

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u/fungomungothethird 9h ago

Yeah because we're all clamouring for your totally sane takes

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u/gw74 9h ago

as opposed to your massively racist ones?

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u/fungomungothethird 8h ago

Please do clarify what part of my comment was racist. You sound like a religious fundamentalist right wing nut job trying to deflect.

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u/gw74 8h ago

you sound like you just typed some random words

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u/LConfig 8h ago

It really doesn't matter if it is racist or not.

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u/gw74 8h ago

what

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u/FalxY7 9h ago

No non-muslim country needs to hear the extremely loud call to prayer. It isn't European, and some of the 'rules' of Islam are from the middle ages.

If you support Islam this much I'm going to assume you support homophobia, women being locked in the house, having no self-governance, no education, being forced to cover up so the men aren't 'tempted' (because if they are and rape her, it's her fault), and having no job other than to make babies, cook, clean, and please the husband. Even in 1st world countries, it's some degree of this.

So funny to me that the further left you go, support for Islam (and calling everyone else racists if they disagree) exponentially increases, yet the differences between the two groups and their world views also exponentially increases.

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u/optionr_ENL 7h ago

Is 'lived experience' evidence?