Denmark to ban Muslim call to prayer: ‘Shouldn’t feel like Islamabad’

Denmark’s centre-left government has announced plans to ban the Muslim call to prayer amid concerns about creeping islamisation.

The ruling Social Democrats attempted to outlaw Islamic prayer calls in 2020 and 2025, and immigration minister Morten Bødskov said this week he would resume an investigation into the legality of such a move.

Mr Bødskov said Islam was “taking up too much of the public space” and that the call to prayer, often made from loudspeakers on mosque minarets, “should not be heard over Danish rooftops”.

“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,” he told Ritzau.

Denmark is home to about 270,000 Muslims out of the total population of about six million, and there are about 100 mosques, the largest of which is in Copenhagen and does not broadcast a prayer call.

The left-leaning Social Democrats have introduced some of Europe’s toughest immigration laws due to public concern about integration and the tax burden of non-Western immigrants, and Denmark now has a lower proportion of foreign-born residents than neighbouring countries.

Denmark’s “parallel society” laws allow the government to reduce public housing in areas that have become more than 50% non-Western and suffer from socio-economic issues such as crime or unemployment.

Immigrant activists are attempting to have the laws, which were introduced in 2018, overturned in the courts on “racial discrimination” grounds.

The Social Democrats failed to secure a majority in a snap parliamentary election in March, but eventually formed government with three other centrist and left-wing parties.

The nationalist Danish People’s Party tripled its 2022 vote after running a pro-remigration campaign demanding net negative Muslim migration, de-Islamisation, large-scale deportations of non-integrated migrants, and a review of all citizenships granted in the past 20 years.

Header image: Muslims praying in the street in Copenhagen (TikTok).

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