Calls to prayer do not belong in Denmark, where one should have no doubt about whether one has ended up in a suburb of Islamabad, says Denmark’s Minister of Immigration and Integration Morten Bødskov, who wants to ban or at least limit public calls to prayer in the country.

Bødskov now wants once again to investigate how this can be done legally, reports Politiken.

The investigation has been put on ice since a parliamentary election was called.
«My position is clear: Calls to prayer should not be heard over Danish rooftops», says Morten Bødskov in a written comment to Ritzau.

The Danish Social Democrats have been dealing with the issue for a long time:

Morten Bødskov is now the third Social Democratic immigration minister who is launching an investigation into legislation against calls to prayer.
The first time was in 2020, when Mattias Tesfaye (S) started the investigation in the Social Democratic single-party government.
The investigation did not manage to be completed before the SVM government took office, and in December last year Rasmus Stoklund then took up the investigation again. But a parliamentary election got in the way again.

For Bødskov this is also about protecting Denmark against an already pressing Islamisation.

Some say that calls to prayer are not a big problem in Denmark, but Bødskov’s predecessor Rasmus Stoklund believes one must be proactive.

«I have no desire for us to suddenly get a mosque that starts calling to prayer over a residential area somewhere in Denmark, and that we only then begin to take a position on how we should handle it. I would like to know already now what legal basis we are standing on,» said Stoklund in December.