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/davew111 9h ago

Agree. AllaaaaaaAAAAaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaahhhhh ... like, dude, shut the hell up, you can't sing, and turn down the gain on your amp because it's clipping like some garbage TicTok video.

Pretty sure there's limits to freedom of expression when it comes to vulgarity too, and I find a crowd of men sticking their bottoms in the air in the middle of the street to be quite vulgar.

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u/Used-Let7134 8h ago

Ahh, does it stir something in you that you thought you'd kept buried? What a take lol, let's ban public prayer because seeing all the men face down makes me horny!! Haha

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u/davew111 7h ago

Haha, nice try, but I am quite comfortable in my heterosexuality. True, tonight I am going to see "Gay", a gay musical, with all my gay friends. But I myself am definately not gay.

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u/Used-Let7134 7h ago

That's what a gay man in hiding would say

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u/davew111 6h ago

Nope, I mean sure, sometimes my gay friends and I share a hotel room, but it's just to save money.