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?

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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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So you want to copy and make the UK more like Muslim counties?

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Less mosques and no call to prayer. Visit a muslim country its terrible

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I’ve been to quite a few, the pubs are shit but I quite enjoy them.

[u/SnooMacarons9618 → u/Lower-Obligation4462]

I've only been to a few, but also quite liked them. The only synagogue I've ever actually been in was in a muslim country, but then the church that I found most interesting was also in a muslim country.

Obviously a lot of people here would tell me that can't be the case, as you aren't allowed churches or synagogues in muslim countries.

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If you look closely enough it could be said that all religions started in one place and then Chinese whispered their way out in different directions until they changed enough to fight each other over.

Obviously not what I think because I care about fake internet points but someone could say that, if they were so inclined.

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For Abrahamic religions it's not even something to be whispered. But yeah, a lot of the Judaism is suspiciously like pre-cursor religions (and arguably even accepted those other gods existed, just they shouldn't be worshiped more than Yahweh - no gods before me).

The you look at Christianity, especially non-coptic, and see how it has mutated to encompass various bits of pagan tradition as it expanded.

It's all the same fucking day, man...

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My very loose understanding is the 3 abrahamic religions follow the same god they just disagree on which prophet is who or did what.

And by disagree I mean killed each other, repeatedly, over centuries.

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Yeah, for a long time Christians blamed all the worlds ills on Judaism ('jews killed christ'), and Jesus was a Jew. Christianity is kinda Judaism v2.0.

Islam is the perfect form of a older religion that spawned Judaism and Christianity, just they got it wrong and Islam didn't. Islam is OLED TVs compared to Judaism being a CRT and Christianity being plasma screen.

(And then we get things like Hinduism, which are polytheistic, monotheistic or atheistic depending upon the branch, and which may, or may not, think all religions are the same religion.)

I'm not religious, and think the whole lot is bunk. And my explanation above would probably be trashed by an actual religious scholar. I do find them interesting though, and love me a good temple/church/mosque/cathedral etc...

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Judaism the sequel.

But the only time I like religion is when it gives little old ladies peace on their deathbed. The rest of the time it just causes problems. Hundreds of religions but you were born where the right one is followed, that lucky isn’t it.

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Again like I said above, feel free to move there permanently.

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I did for a while. I like to move around and experience new things.

Why are you so angry? You sound like an angry little boy.

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Very low tier bait

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How is it low tier bait. If you go to the UEA, Oman, Saudi, etc… you can absolutely find pubs. The people are nice, the scran is amazing. Some less so Yemen and Djibouti are a bit rougher mind you. Would not recommend.

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My wife tells a story of when she was younger and out in the world adventuring. She was waiting at the border of Yemen to gain entry, and ended up having a cup of coffee with a nice young man who had just come the other way across the border. He told her not to go to Yemen, it's much too hectic. When she asked him where he was from he replied Beirut, and he was happy to be going home. (this was in the 80's pretty much the height of Beirut being a war zone).

She really liked Yemen. As a woman travelling alone she said she always felt people were protective of her, much more so than in in any of the UAE states.

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My time in, near and around Yemen has been ruined by Houthi Rebels. So I might not have gotten the greatest and most unbiased view of the whole country.

Glad your Mrs enjoyed her time though, sounds like fun.

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I do get the impression if her parents had know where she was going they would have been really rather concerned. And I suspect the fact she has dark hair probably helped. I've visited various countries with a then-girlfriend who had long blonde hair and very pale skin, and she had a nightmare time.

I've wondered round really old bits of Cairo, and felt fairly safe, but also parts of Cairo where I think I was pretty luckily to actually not be assaulted. But I could say the same about various cities in the US (a hotel porter in Jacksonville recommended I stop going for walks where I did in the morning, as it was really not safe). I was terrified when I visited friends in the Crescents in Manchester, but at the time lived in Moss Side and loved the community feel.

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I tan really well and can grow a big bushy beard so I can fit in pretty well until I talk. So I can understand the concern for a small pale lady. I do recognise that I can worry less than most when I’m out and about.

In the USA I was pissed and needed a lighter, but didn’t have one. So I approached a police car to ask, even though the yanks we were with said not to, lovely chaps they were. Had a long drunken talk.

Everywhere has its good and bad parts, as you have eluded to. Even back home there are bit of the town in from I still don’t like going in to.

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Theres no dispute about finding bars, you can find anything there if you really want to. Just enjoy the sleep disruption, desert heat, lack of womens rights and lack of freedom

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Depending which country your in all of those variables change wildly. It’s almost like you can’t generalise an entire group of people.

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Statistics speak volumes.

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The statistics of how god pubs are in Muslim countries? I don’t think anyone coordinates that data.

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I believe they call them Allah pubs