Denmark considers ban of nationwide Muslim ‘call to prayer’

The Danish authorities is considering a nationwide prohibition connected the nationalist broadcast of the Islamic telephone to prayer, known arsenic the Adhan, according to section media reports.

Immigration Minister Morten Bodskov said the authorities would revisit an probe into whether specified a prohibition would beryllium legally permissible nether Danish law.

Speaking to Danish quality bureau Ritzau, Bodskov said the nationalist telephone to supplication should not beryllium broadcast crossed the country. He added that the authorities was acrophobic astir what it described arsenic the expanding visibility of Islam successful nationalist spaces.

“The telephone to supplication should not beryllium heard implicit Danish rooftops,” Bodskov was quoted arsenic saying.

“It has nary spot successful Denmark, and you shouldn’t beryllium successful immoderate uncertainty whether you’ve ended up successful a suburb of Islamabad erstwhile you locomotion astir Denmark.”

The connection marks the 3rd effort by Danish authorities to research a ineligible model for restricting the nationalist broadcast of the Adhan. Similar efforts were undertaken successful 2020 and 2025.

The Adhan is simply a accepted Islamic telephone summoning Muslims to supplication and is typically broadcast 5 times regular from mosque minarets utilizing loudspeakers.