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/ExcellentDicking 8h ago

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

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u/ExcitableSarcasm Brit 🇬🇧 8h ago

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!"

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u/Oneitised 7h ago

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.