COPENHAGEN (Arrahmah.com) – A Danish Muslim student who abandoned her culinary school after being forced to taste pork in classes has received a court order forcing the school to pay 40,000 Danish krone, or around $6,000, as compensation.
Troubles emerged when 24-year-old Muslim student was told in Holstebro Culinary School that she has to taste her own food that she cooks as part of her education which included pork, Anadolu Agency reported cited the Danish daily Politiken.
The student, who arrived in the country as a baby from Libya, was aware that the school asked students to prepare food with pork and wine.
However, the requirement to eat the food also was said to be a recent requirement, according to the paper.
After being forced to taste pork, the student, who was not named by the paper, filed a complaint against the school with the Equal Treatment Board and said she was being discriminated on religious grounds.
She also reportedly stopped going to the school as a result of the requirement to eat pork, which Muslims believe is prohibited to eat in Islam.
The board had agreed with the student’s claim of discrimination ordering the school to pay the student $6,005 compensation, instead of the $70,000 asked for. (onislam/arrahmah.com)
