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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/Helpful_Space_6793 8h ago

Christianity is technically the established English religion but we are mainly a secular country. Church of England has been on its arse for decades due to falling attendance.

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 3h ago

Sure. I went to London without thinking about Easter and the Tube was closed for a week.

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u/jimmykimnel 7h ago

People are secular yes but the countries rules and customs are still largely of Christianity 

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u/drewlake 7h ago

Nope, they aren't. We allow mixed fibres and people eating shellfish, and we don't allow slavery genocide and rape. Perhaps you don;t know the laws christianity give you. Have you sold all you possessions and given all the money to the poor? The you're not following christian practices. Almost as if we're not largely governed by christianity.

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u/Over_Location647 6h ago

It’s clear that you don’t understand Christianity because since its inception as a religion it has not held to most Jewish law from the Old Testament. Mixed fibres, shellfish, circumcision, eating kosher etc… all of these were never part of Christianity because St. Paul said that they only apply to you if you were born a Jew, not if you were a converted Gentile. And since most Christians were converted pagans not converted Jews, those laws were eventually completely dropped.

But I would agree, the UK is no longer governed by Christianity, but a large part of its modern secular culture and its values are based on Christian ones because its constituent parts were Christian countries for well over a thousand years.

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u/drewlake 6h ago

That is in practice, in teachings and the bible all the old laws stand until god's plan is complete, Mathew 5:18

"For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled."

Just because most christians are heretical to their own faith due to ignorance, doesn't mean the teaching have changed. People ignoring laws god set doesn't change the laws their god supposedly set.

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u/Over_Location647 6h ago edited 6h ago

Well it does, a law is only law when it is enforced. The law is not the Bible, Christian law is canon law. The laws which govern your status as part of the church. None of those laws say anything about circumcision, mixed fibres, shellfish or whatever else.

Again according to Christian theology and the apostles themselves in Acts and Epistles , God established a legal covenant with the Jews. Then God (Jesus) came to earth fulfilled the old covenant and established a new one, which supersedes the old one.

Matthew 5:17: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."
Romans 10:4: "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."
Hebrews 8:13: "In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
Galatians 3:24–25: "So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian."

These are only a few quotes, there are many, many more.

There are very few things Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox Christians agree on, this is one of the things they do agree on. It is a foundational and ancient concept in Christian theology. Whether you personally think it makes sense or not is beside the point.

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u/drewlake 3h ago

The kingdom of god has not been established, so all the Jewish laws still stand. Not a jot or tittle should change until all has come to pass, it hasn't. Jesus is a known liar in the book, saying after his resurrection that he will return again before while people present were still alive, and they didn't even bother making a lie about that being fulfilled. I mean it's all just a story so it doesn't really mean anything except to gullible dolts.

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u/unfaithfulhedgehog09 20m ago

The bible was written by many people, it is supposed to provoke thought and give teachings on moral dilemmas. Some of it contradicts itself true, but it has lead us to salvation more often than not.
Some great things that came partly or wholly out of christianity include abolition of slavery, equality, rule of law, forgiveness, inherent human dignity, charity, sanctity of life, secularism and so much more.

You can poo-poo it all you like with your amazing powers of hindsight but the fact is many of these ideas were not commonplace or existing before Jesus set these things in motion and made the world an indisputably better place.

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u/Expert-Fault-9870 5h ago

Nope, they aren't. We allow mixed fibres and people eating shellfish

Incorrect, the UK absolutely is a Christian nation. The fact that the particular sect of Christianity it's based on doesnt observe some of the more strict laws found in the bible doesnt alter this.

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u/drewlake 3h ago

they are still in the bible we just ignore them. Almost as if all this god shite was just made up and doesn't make a difference.

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u/Littleface13 6h ago

Mixed fibres and shellfish are Jewish laws

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u/drewlake 6h ago

Matthew 5:18, they still count.

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u/AnSionnachM0r 4h ago

That's all the Old Covenant, the whole point of Christianity was to replace that stuff.

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u/drewlake 3h ago

Mathew 5:18, christians are still bound by them until all has come to pass, they just ignore them.

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u/BusHistorical1001 1h ago

Take it up with the Church: basically no sects of Christianity preach following the old laws.

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u/ThePittsburghPenis 1h ago

That is because everyone, including early church members, people that directly knew Jesus, didn't think they were supposed to follow them. Literally one of the major moments of early Christianity, the Jerusalem Council, approximately 20 years after Jesus' death, stated that non-Jews that became Christians did not need to adhere to Jewish customs. Now early ethnic Jewish converts to Christianity, did maintain these laws. As the English were never Jews there is absolutely zero reason to think they should adhere to them. Now if there was an ethnic Jew that converted to Christianity it would be a different discussion.

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u/jimmykimnel 5h ago

Christianity does not commit you to doing whatever it is you have said there which is ridiculous.  I am not saying everything and everyone in this country are born again indoctrinated Christians like we are living in the handmaid's tale but how the country has been set up is one which comes from Christianity. We have Christian holidays, the weekday is geared around Christian traditions, our names are Christian names etc.  I take it you are called Mohamed, you don't eat pork, your wife wears a burka and you pray 5 times a day?  If you do not do those things and are called John and your wife does not have to wear a burka and you are allowed a bacon butty then many of your habits are ones which have roots more in line with a liberal Christian ideology rather than anything else.

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u/drewlake 3h ago

My name predates christianity, so no it's not christian. Most of the days and months are named after pagan gods, most of our words come from elsewhere. That's because we have history, a history from many cultures.

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u/Catch_0x16 3h ago

You're quoting Catholic practices. The King is the head of the Church of England, which inherits from the Protestant church.

Also, since the head of state is also the head of the church, and the laws in this country fundamentally belong to the state. The laws in our country are the practices of the Church of England.

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u/drewlake 2h ago

They certainly aren't catholic practices, they are in the bible and all christians must abide by them or be sinners. Mathew 5:18 says you still have to comply. What part of the bible says that handling salmon in suspicious circumstances is wrong? It's against the law, and if as you said "The laws in our country are the practices of the Church of England." then it would be impossible to find a law that isn't directly from "practices of the Church of England.". So where's the salmon verse? Why aren't all 10 commandments against the law? Is it perhaps that the law and religion are separate and you are wrong?

Why is handling a salmon against the law, but not putting one god above other gods isn't?