Danish Culinary School Fined $6,000 for Forcing Muslim Student to Taste Pork

TEHRAN (IQNA) - A Danish court has ordered a culinary school to pay around $6,000 in damages to its Muslim student after a woman was required to taste pork as part of her studies.

The 24-year-old student, who arrived in Denmark from Libya, when she still was a baby, attended the Holstebro Culinary School, named after the town where it’s located, RT reported.
According to the Politiken daily, the student, whose name wasn’t revealed by the paper, was told by school officials that she would have to taste the food she cooks.
Dishes the group cooked contained pork, forbidden for Muslims due to religion, prompting the woman to abstain from trying them.
As she refused, she was asked to only taste, but not to swallow the pork dishes.
She also reportedly stopped going to the school as a result of the requirement to eat pork.
The woman recorded the conversation with school officials and later presented the tape as evidence in court.
The woman said that she was being discriminated against on religious grounds and filed a complaint against the school to the Equal Treatment Board.
The board upheld her claim and ordered the school to pay the student $75,000 in moral damages.
The culinary school challenged the verdict in the Danish High Court, saying that the woman hadn't graduated as she missed classes too often.
The High Court upheld the lower court's decision, but ordered the school to pay a smaller sum in compensation of 40,000 Danish krone (around $6,000).
Denmark is home to a Muslim minority of 200,000, making three percent of the country's 5.4 million population.