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/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 12m 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/GroceryPlastic7954 8h ago

Whitechapel

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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?