A Danish court found a culinary school liable for violating a Muslim student’s rights and has ordered to pay 40,000 Danish krone, or around $6,000, as compensation, as per reported.
The 24-year-old Muslim student has abandoned her Holstebro Culinary School after she was forced to taste the food that she cooked like her other classmates.
The student, who was not named is originally from Libya, was aware that the school asked students to prepare food with pork and wine but not that trying prepared dishes was compulsory.
The student filed a complaint against the school with the Equal Treatment Board and alleged that she was being discriminated on religious grounds after being forced to taste pork.
As Pork is considered to be a forbidden food, or “haram”, in the Islam, the board had agreed with the student’s claim of religious discrimination ordering the school to pay the student $6,005 compensation.
Islam is Denmark’s second largest religion and Muslim minority is about 200,000 people making up 3 % of the country’s 5.4 million population.