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Monday 11 May 2015 - 10:37 Makkah mean time-22-7-1436
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Copenhagen, Denmark (IINA) – A Danish court has ordered a culinary school to pay around $6,000 in damages to its Muslim student after a student was required to taste pork as part of her studies, according to media reports.
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, OnIslam reported.
Troubles emerged when the 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 citing the Danish daily Politiken.
The student, who is originally 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.
The board had agreed with the student’s claim of discrimination ordering the school to pay the student $6,005 compensation.
Islam is Denmark's second largest religion after the Lutheran Protestant Church, and Muslim minority is around 200,000 people making up three percent of the country's 5.4 million population.
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