School fined for telling Muslim to ‘taste’ pork in Denmark

A Danish court has ordered a culinary school in Denmark’s Holstebro town to pay a Muslim woman 40,000 Danish krone, or around $6,000, in damages for forcing her to taste pork as part of her classes

 

A Danish court has ordered a culinary school in Denmark’s Holstebro town to pay a Muslim woman 40,000 Danish krone, or around $6,000, in damages for forcing her to taste pork as part of her classes.

According to Danish daily, the 24-year-old student studied at the Holstebro Culinary School and was told that she too like other students would have to taste her own food that she cooks as part of her education.

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 is prohibited to be eaten in Islam.

The board had agreed with the student’s claim of discrimination and asked the school to pay the student $75,000 in damages.