Denmark moves to ban Islamic call to prayer; minister says nation ‘shouldn’t sound like a suburb of Islamabad’
By Jihad Watch
Denmark’s Immigration Minister Morten Bødskov rightly has concerns about creeping Islamization in his country, as should every infidel country, given the expansionary character of the Sharia. At the same time, he also has concerns about whether banning the bellowing of the adhan over loudspeakers is “compatible with Denmark’s constitutional protections for religious freedom.”
The Sharia is not compatible with Western laws, as it is based on Islamic supremacy.
In the recent Jihad Watch post, Canada: Muslim call to prayer blares out in downtown Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, I wrote:
The adhan is particularly disruptive at dawn before sunrise. It translates to this:
Allahu akbar (Allah is greater)
I bear witness there is none worthy of worship except Allah
I bear witness Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
Come to prayer
Come to success
Allahu akbar (Allah is greater)
There is none worthy of worship except Allah
The adhan, when it is broadcast over loudspeakers, is not just a blaring public summons to ensure that every Muslim (and non-Muslim) can hear it, over and above all other sounds, it’s a declaration of supremacy, both in its content and in its sheer volume; especially in infidel lands.
Even in Saudi Arabia, “families had been complaining that competing speakers were keeping their children awake.” And so Saudi Arabia defended an order in 2021 to turn down the volume of the adhan.
Islam calls for violence against disbelievers in conquest; it promotes supremacy over infidels, male supremacy over females, wife-beating, female coverings from head to toe (lest women be abused), sex slavery, child marriage, murder of gays, and the list goes on to include myriads of verses that are incompatible with human rights and Western values. Would permitting all of this fall under the banner of religious freedom? Obviously not. Neither does waking up a neighborhood in the early hours for the provocative, supremacist, and loud declaration that Allah is greater than every deity.
“Denmark plans to ban Islamic call to prayer: ‘Shouldn’t sound like a suburb of Islamabad,’” by Olivia Allhusen, Daily Mail, June 24, 2026:
Denmark is planning to ban the Islamic call to prayer, with the country’s immigration minister claiming parts of the nation risk sounding like ‘a suburb of Islamabad’.
Morten Bødskov said the government would reopen an investigation into whether the Muslim call to prayer can be outlawed nationwide, arguing that what he described as creeping ‘Islamisation’ was taking up too much public space.
‘The call to prayer should not be heard over Danish rooftops,’ the Social Democrat minister told Danish news agency 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.’
The Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, is traditionally broadcast five times a day to summon worshippers to mosques, often through loudspeakers mounted on minarets.
Bødskov’s proposal marks the third attempt by a Danish immigration minister to establish a legal framework for banning the practice, following similar efforts in 2020 and 2025.
Parts of Denmark already restrict public calls to prayer. In Copenhagen, strict local noise regulations effectively prevent mosques from broadcasting the Adhan through loudspeakers.
The minister said an investigation would examine whether a nationwide ban could be introduced while remaining compatible with Denmark’s constitutional protections for religious freedom…
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