It will ‘not be consistent’ with the Constitution or The European Convention on human rights to impose a ban specifically against the muslim bønnekald.
The typing of the aliens and integration, Mattias Tesfaye (S) in a folketingssvar.
– A ban that only targets bønnekald from the muslim communities in Denmark, will not be compatible with diskriminationsforbuddene in the basic law, article 70 and The European convention on human rights article 14, writes the ministry in the answer.
the Danish people’s Party and New Civic both have the desire, there came a ban on muslim bønnekald.
the Requirement came with renewed strength as the video below coronanedlukningen showed how that was called for prayer in Gellerup in Aarhus.
For the current must be authorized by the municipality to make bønnekald. There were subsequent doubts on how this was given.
Mattias Tesfaye writes in response that he does not believe that the example is enough that there should be legislated.
– the Government in general has no problem with citizens signals related to a particular religion.
– at the same time, I believe that the kind of bønnekald, we have seen in Aarhus during the covid-19, is violent and overbearing for the citizens living nearby who need to hear it, writes the minister, however.
He also writes that it is undecided whether there can be introduced a general ban on bønnekald within the framework of the Constitution and the international conventions.
the Danish people’s Marie Krarup has asked whether a general prohibition could be interpreted such, that the christian church bells are not excluded.
– My ministry will, however, with the help of the Ministry of foreign affairs to investigate whether there is introduced legislation on bønnekald in other european countries, since such analysis useful in relation to detailed consideration of the need for similar legislation in denmark, writes Mattias Tesfaye.
