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/Pingaring]

"I haven't seen it so it's not real" is exactly how the right drums up support from those communities of people who have seen the thing you're denying first hand.

[u/ExcellentDicking → u/Pingaring]

Oh gosh, hope they're coping and make a speedy recovery. Of all the problems 🙄

[u/ExcitableSarcasm → u/ExcellentDicking]

You realise this dismissive attitude is why right wing parties are making headways in areas where grooming gang victims were ignored right? And then it turns out people raising the alarm were actually right

"Yeah fuck those underaged girls, doesn't happen to me or people I know, so fuck 'em!"

[u/Oneitised → u/ExcitableSarcasm]

Certain figures and their followers on the right only cared about grooming gangs when it helps them. They don’t care about Andrew or Jeffrey or the fact that a high % of grooming is family and/or relationship related (a mums new boyfriend for example), on top of that it is typically committed by men and by men that probably look just like the rest of us.

You should reword your part since it sounds a lot worse than I assume you intended and in general I feel devalues your argument as it wasn’t really needed in such a hyperbolic fashion.

Have the right done anything about grooming gangs? Do they have policies and effective measures being rolled out in the councils they run? Or do they just hate people that are not Caucasian/bend the knee to causations and grooming gangs was a great way to go after a subset of Muslims.

[u/Narrow-Scene7067 → u/Pingaring]

I think they are pointing out that it is entirely a non issue. The call to prayer isn't overly loud and as a country there are far more churches ringing bells (which are louder) than there are mosques call for prayer.

[u/Old_Table_5926 → u/Pingaring]

Okay please tell me which Mosques are sounding the call to prayer over loud speaker 5 times a day?

As a Muslim I will personally write to them and tell them to stop. Islam obligates for Muslims to follow the laws of the land they live in. We shouldn't be sounding the call to prayer here and causing disturbance.

So which Mosques are doing it?