The Danish left wants to ban the call to prayer «because this isn't Islamabad.»
A minister in the left-wing government tells Parliament that the Islamic call to prayer “does not belong in Denmark” and that Danes should not feel as though they are living in a suburb of Islamabad.
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The left-wing government of Denmark He wants to study whether he can legally ban the Islamic call to prayer (adhan). that many mosques do with loudspeakers outside. The Social Democratic Minister Morten Bødskov He has argued that the adhan “should not sound over the Danish rooftops.” and that the citizens They shouldn't feel as though they've ended up in a suburb of Islamabad.“ when they walk through their country, as has been reported The Telegraph.
Bødskov was particularly forceful in Parliament. “In Denmark we have religious freedom. We do not have religious equality. Denmark is a Christian country.”, he stated. According to the minister, for the majority of Danes religion is “a private matter” and that means that No one should be able to “bother others without limits with their faith.”. Therefore, he concluded, “The call to prayer does not belong in Denmark.”The minister also said that he understands that many people experience it as something “very invasive.”.
Denmark discusses what Europe avoids
The proposal also shows to what extent Denmark has broken with the usual reflex of the European left. While in other countries Any criticism of Islamisation is quickly pushed to the right., the Danish Social Democrats have assumed that Immigration, religion and national cohesion are central issues for the working class.. The great Danish difference is that they have not allowed the debate on the country's identity to become the exclusive preserve of the conservative parties.
This way of understanding national identity also explains the Danish crackdown on parallel societies. The government does not see integration as a mere legal formality, nor as simply having papers or a job., rather than as the acceptance of a common framework. That is why it has tightened family reunification rules, made refugees“ stays temporary by law, and introduced measures against neighbourhoods with a high concentration of ”non-Western" populations.
The underlying idea is clear: if the State allows separate cultural spaces to form, with their own norms, community pressure and a tenuous relationship with the language, the school and Danish institutions, national cohesion is broken. And at this point the religious dimension becomes inevitable, because Much of the Danish debate on parallel societies revolves around Muslim communities., of internal social control and the growing presence of Islam in public space.
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