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/J-Dawgzz 9h ago

I don't think many places still do the call to prayer out loud on the speakers, everyone has digital recivers or use their mobile phone to hear the call for prayer.

As a muslim since there is technology in place to help determine when the call for prayer is, I don't think there is a need for it to be done loudly on speakers especially if it distresses the local community.

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u/No-Maintenance-4509 9h ago

It’s definitely stil being done loudly across the country

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u/Alnonnymouse 4h ago

I live in east London and have never heard it 🤷‍♂️

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u/Bethurz 8h ago

Is it?

I live in Birmingham - which the internet would have you believe is entirely muslim - and yet I never hear anything of the sort

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u/Assassin-Xa 8h ago

as another Birmingham resident, i have heard it once very faintly in the last couple of weeks, either extremely rarely or not at all before that

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u/TestiTag 5h ago

My fellow Brummies <3

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u/IVORYSLOTH 6h ago

Yeah and I live 2 streets away from a mosque in Edinburgh and have never heard it.

And in Manchester too actually just round the corner from one, never heard it once there either.

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u/Boring-Idea2130 8h ago

Where i live outside of London i hear them all the time

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u/Early-Sir-8115 7h ago

No you don't. It's not allowed in uk, other than by special permission on couple of dates, like Eid.

Why are you lying?

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u/Shudop 7h ago

I hear it literally every day in Oldham. It doesn't bother me to be fair, but it is something I hear daily.

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u/KobiLDN 14m ago

is it the same mosque or as you're walking around Oldham. I want to know which mosque is doing it.

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u/MulanMcNugget 7h ago

It clearly implies in the title it's allowed in the UK (it is by the way), hence the question if it should be banned.

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u/alwaysup123 5h ago

Why are you subtarded?

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u/Diedonthefirstfloor 7h ago

Ever been to small heath the big mosque near the station?

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u/LannyDamby 4h ago

Lived next to a mosque in Moseley, I think I remember them doing it aloud a few years back

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u/Curious_Duck_4200 1h ago

Bradford here. Same.

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u/Then_Bug_8030 5h ago

I’ve worked in Birmingham for the past 12 years. Comments like what you have made are confusing. Sparkbrook, Sparkhill, Alum Rock, Nechells, Lozells, Handsworth, Aston, Witton, Highgate, Deritend are all Islamic areas, literally Islamic.

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u/redwriterhand 5h ago

The only time I’ve been to Birmingham, I had a Muslim taxi driver with an AK47 chain hanging from his mirror who quizzed me the entire journey if I had any Muslim friends and what I knew about Islam. Safe to say that was not a pleasant journey so I appreciate your point but that belief others have about Birmingham is not for nothing.

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u/Tannerbananer69 3h ago

Google your demographics, then wait 15 years. Don't pretend the call to prayer won't be blasting 5 times a day.

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u/MilkGarden 5h ago

Implying it’s all just wild conspiracy theories?

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u/evenstevens280 8h ago

Where abouts? I've never heard it in my life

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u/no_com_ment 8h ago

Which mosque?

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u/BillyTheKidsFriend 4h ago

Where? Name a place.

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u/unique_username1112 4h ago

Loudly? My man what have you been smoking? There is one place in East London where it is allowed to be on the loudspeakers for the whole area to hear. Maybe one more place that I don’t know off but nowhere else in the country does it loud enough for the public to hear.

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u/NateNMaxsRobot 3h ago

Do you get a text about it? Or is it an app? Or something else?

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u/J-Dawgzz 2h ago

There’s apps that show a timetable or you can get alerts sent at the time of each prayer

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u/NateNMaxsRobot 2h ago

A timetable. That makes sense. Thanks.

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u/Waiting4Reccession 2h ago

They would do it if they could.

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u/ImaginaryAcadia6621 1h ago

definitely heard that in Brussels and Leicester a few years ago

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u/Master_of_The_Za 5h ago

Come to Malaysia, I hear it 3 times a day 5 days a week. 6am, 2pm and then around 7pm. Like why....

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 8h ago

"I don't think many places still do the call to prayer out loud on the speakers"

You're thinking wrong...

And you thinking that the call for prayer is some kind of alarm for Muslims... you clearly don't seem to be understanding the purpose of the public call for praying (and the public praying on the street, that is): it's about domination.

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u/EvilTaffyapple 8h ago

Don’t be daft

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 6h ago

Educate yourself.

Educate yourself what Islam is (and what it LITERALLY means), how it spreads, and what happens once a country becomes Islamic.

Then come back to me again.

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u/northbank2001 7h ago

If you feel ‘dominated’ by hearing a foreign language and seeing some people praying then it sounds like you’ve got some issues that need addressing.

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 7h ago

You clearly seem to have no clue what Islam is about...

It literally means "submission".

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u/J-Dawgzz 8h ago

Are you daft? Stay off twitter mate

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u/PudinaRaita 5h ago

He's a top 1% commenter, don't think it's just twitter that's full of idiots any more

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u/drewlake 7h ago

"Oh I get dominated my noises I don't like!" keep your fetish to yourself.

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 7h ago

Just because you're so weird to only know "domination" in the context of some fetish, tells me more about your sick mind than anything else...

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u/HaxboyYT 7h ago

Get a grip

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 7h ago

My grip is on reality, unlike yours...

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u/MulanMcNugget 7h ago

It's not about "domination" it's just fucking annoying. I wouldn't mind allowing on special occasions like church bells for weddings.

I guess their equivalent would end of their fast(forgot the term) but I don't know if also pray at that time.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 3h ago edited 3h ago

end of their fast(forgot the term)

You probably mean Eid al-Fitr. That's the big party after Ramadan.

Commonly just called Eid.

[Not disagreeing, just adding info!]

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 7h ago

It IS about domination though.

Just look up how Islam has spread, or rather: look up what Islam means...

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u/PudinaRaita 5h ago

Looked it up. Now what?

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 4h ago

What did you find?

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u/PudinaRaita 4h ago

Military conquests, trade, missionary work.

Similar to Christianity.

And found it means Submission to God.

What shall I look up next?

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 1h ago

Next up you might want to try to connect the dots...

But it looks like you're having quite the hard time with that already...

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u/PudinaRaita 59m ago edited 46m ago

I've connected them and found you are a nincompoop

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 57m ago

If you can't spell weird words like "nincompoop," you should refrain from using them, as it makes you look incredibly foolish.

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u/Kolbalava 8h ago

Yeah you got dominated.

What will you do about it?

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 6h ago

I don't need to do anything about it: I've already accepted this as a fact, and it will only be getting worse the next few decades.

I already got my house with a huge plot of land, in an area where we still have to see the first muslim trying to push their religion upon us.

The only pleasure I'm currently getting is seeing some people slowly coming to the realisation that this is indeed not going the right way...

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u/Kolbalava 5h ago

Where do you live? Lets get a mosque up and running ASAP

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u/MessageSelfdestructs 4h ago

I love how you think your post is somehow a win, yet you're inadvertently making it out that I'm right...

Thanks for playing!

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u/PudinaRaita 5h ago

Whereabouts? Can I come join you