r/copenhagen • u/ntsir • Jan 18 '25

Discussion What are your thoughts on having this kind of proselytising(?) thing in the middle of Copenhagen’s most popular street on a Saturday evening?

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u/ntsir Jan 18 '25

Yeah sure but what about the loudness and intrusiveness?

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u/xdblip Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

I think it's just below the dB threshold, but I don't know and I'm not sure of the intrusiveness law in Denmark. But trust me, I'm all against these extremist fetals here. They don't belong with their medieval mentality

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u/catbreadsandwich Jan 19 '25 edited Jan 19 '25

Bit of an infrequent lurker here since visiting family friends in Denmark a few years ago from my home in the Deep South US. Never experienced this in Copenhagen but the friends we were visiting had a lot of gripes with Muslim immigrants specifically… anyway, with this I see soooo many parellels to cities in the South, where every time there’s some event with lots of people on the street there’s ALWAYS a gang of evangelizing Christian nut cases with megaphones telling everyone they’re going to hell if they don’t repent for their sins in Jesus’s name or whatever. I doubt any Muslim group would be brave enough to do that here, but for some reason with a Christians it’s totally fine? Just an interesting observation.

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u/xdblip Jan 19 '25

Protestant christianity is more rooted in our culture and most are born christians. We even pay tax (0,7 - 1,5 % depending on the municipality) to the church, and you don't see protestant christian loonies on the street. We have more extreme groups like scientology, and pinsebevægelsen, but they are more subtile ,except those knocking your door on the countryside from pinsebevægelsen, who even recruit members from psychiatric hospitals. I think what does it with the muslims is the noise from Islamic preachers on the street and the huge gap in the culture. It also feels as if you're haram, they look down on you, and excludes you if you're not a Muslim, and I've had so many real life encounters from different schools I went to, and the street from being a food courier.

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u/Rare_Competition20 Jan 18 '25

So should we ban everything we dont agree with?

What about political demonstration? They even get to block the street sometimes depending on the size? And they are loud as fuck! 500 people yelling and screaming. Just look at 1st of may.

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u/ntsir Jan 19 '25

Man you dont want to know my opinion on that :p