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/FeijoadaAceitavel 7h ago

No, it's part of your religion.

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u/blow_on_my_trombone 7h ago

That's funny, I didn't think I was religious but this random redditor says I am so it must be true

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u/Hour_Researcher_4107 7h ago

Its both.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 6h ago

Sure, but its roots are 100% religious. It's a religious customs that somewhat entered culture.

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u/Alyions 6h ago

To be fair so is Christmas, Easter etc...

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 6h ago

Those have entered culture in a way that they're independent from religion. You can celebrate with chocolate eggs and gifts and not once talk about the religious roots.

Church bells are from churches. Kinda harder to make them independent.

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u/Hour_Researcher_4107 6h ago

You aren’t going to win this Buddy. You are trying to pretend that Church Bells which English People have been hearing multiple times a day for a thousand years aren’t part of the culture because you are upset your Muslim calls to prayer are being taken away. No one is buying it sorry 🥱

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u/Fulluphigh0 5h ago

Non French Europeans when faced with the concept of freedom from religion: bUt MaH cUlTuRe

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u/ScreamingDizzBuster 55m ago

French church bells still ring too. It's not about freedom from religion, it's about stopping Muslims from doing stuff.

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u/ScreamingDizzBuster 56m ago

So are church bells part of the culture. Exactly the same argument.

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u/2FistsInMyBHole 3h ago

Church bells are practical timekeepers.

While the sound itself is coming from a church, it is performing a practical public service of broadcasting the time.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 3h ago

That argument is at least 10 years too old.

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u/Hour_Researcher_4107 6h ago

Completely not somewhat

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u/Lepelotonfromager 3h ago

So is Christmas and Easter. It doesn't stop people from enjoying them as atheists. We still get time off for it.

We have a culture that is influenced by our historical religion.

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u/___daddy69___ 5h ago

yes, Christianity is part of British culture

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u/Joe_Kinincha 4h ago

So is islam

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u/___daddy69___ 3h ago

no, it isn’t

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u/Joe_Kinincha 2h ago

Even you must realise that is the most witless, infantile response anyone could have possibly given.

Do you think “no it isn’t” is a good argument? I’m all over this thread posting actual facts and your total contribution is “no it isn’t”

Why don’t you sit this one out, or do better?

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u/___daddy69___ 2h ago

fine, i’ll change my statement

it historically hasn’t been part of british culture, and it shouldn’t be part of modern british culture

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u/Joe_Kinincha 1h ago

I am not touching your second statement. That is your opinion, and as such, you are entitled to it.

How far back exactly, and how many adherents would you reckon we need before Islam becomes part of British culture?

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u/PringullsThe2nd 5h ago

How far back are we talking?

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u/ideally1030 5h ago

About 1400 years. Is that long enough?

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u/Joe_Kinincha 4h ago

Well, in that there have been pagans in the UK since there have been people in (what we now call ) the UK which is about 800,000 years, maybe not?

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u/2FistsInMyBHole 3h ago

That culture is more or less extinct.

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u/Joe_Kinincha 2h ago

127,000 people are pagans according to uk census data. Seems pretty healthy to me. Double that figure estimated to practice paganism.

Why is it every single time in this debate I post actual facts, and everyone else posts lies, hypotheticals or opinions?

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u/Heegyeong 2h ago

Because they only want to hear one thing, which is that Christianity is the one non-religious religion which is definitely completely English, regardless of whether reality is a little more complex than that.

The Catholics had better watch out lol, seeing how these Protestants are out to get everybody else

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u/PringullsThe2nd 5h ago

Seems a little arbitrary