The European country of Denmark is taking action to fight back against the Islamization of its culture that many other nations around the world probably wouldn’t dream of doing: banning the Islamic call to prayer. Denmark said it’s planning to ban the public broadcasting of the call to prayer as critics slam its incessant transmission from mosques and minarets as showing disrespect to the wider community and leaves parts of the country feeling like a “suburb of Islamabad.”
Morten Bodskov, Denmark’s immigration minister, who is part of the center-left Social Democrats, is the individual leading the charge against the call to prayer. Bodskov confirmed his plan to end the practice, using imagery of Muslim-majority Islamabad to paint a picture of certain locations in the country being swamped by Islamists on a daily basis.
“The call to prayer 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 went on to say in interviews across several news outlets. Bodskov’s initiative is the third of its kind from a Social Democratic minister.
Two other efforts were pursued in 2020 and 2025. The Adhan, which is performed five times a day, has already been placed under restrictions in some major cities, such as Copenhagen, under noise bylaws, according to a report from Breitbart News. The movement to ban the prayer isn’t going to be easy, however, as Danish legal hurdles are in place that say freedom of religion is a legal guarantee.
The report noted that several exceptions have been granted, such as prohibitions on anti-democratic preaching and funding from banned organizations. Both Britain and Germany have already placed limits on the times when a mosque may broadcast a call to prayer and enforce volume limits so as not to disturb other citizens who do not practice the religion of Islam.
Another European country that is beginning to push back against the call to prayer is, surprisingly, France. The call to prayer, which in Arabic is the adhan, was translated by the BBC and says, “God is great, there is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Come to prayer.” However, many folks say this is a deliberate mistranslation, as the phrase “Allahu akbar” should be more accurately translated as “our God is greater,” not “God is great.”
Christian Concern, a charitable organization, has previously made the case that the Islamic call to prayer should not be compared to the ringing of church bells as the latter is “not prayer directed to Allah, but a public declaration that Allah is God and that Muhammad is his messenger.” This means the adhan is in reality an assertion of religious superiority.
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One individual who commented on the Breitbart story suggested that the very purpose of the adhan is to harass non-Muslims. “It is the purpose! To harass, irritate, intimidate, force submission. One of the tools of the death cult.” Another said, “It’s patently archaic, compulsory, and obsessive. Inspired by fear that someone, somewhere might somehow forget one of their numerous daily prayers and thereby carelessly put their souls in danger.”