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Muslim student in Dutch court
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.
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, like the rest of her classmates.
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.
The woman recorded the conversation with school officials and later presented the tape as evidence in court.
It appeared that the student was informed that pork and wine would be in the recipes, but she was only informed that trying prepared dishes was compulsory after the course began.
The woman insisted 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).
Thank you Denmark for giving justice to this Muslim student. May Pakistan learn from you!
“May Pakistan learn from you!”
Now you are pushing.
DENMARK ZINDABAD…..and have you heard about the Canadian school where food supplied in the school invariably contains pork?…….and now court says you have chosen to come to this ‘pious’ land as immigrant so you have to either TAKE it or LEAVE us alone!
I agree with this proverb that says when you are in Rome , you do as romans do; if there were hindus in that school would they have accepted to eat beef? Either they shoud change school or refuse to eat what they are served or bring their food with them from home, there is always an alternative; I don’t think these kids have been forced to partake that food. The same thing applies to the ban of wearing burka, either you accept the law or the regulations or you leave the country & settle where this is accepted. No hard feelings.
Mahmood: The article states that she was forced to ‘taste’ the food. “Do as the Romans do” may used to be fine, but now we need to adjust to EACH OTHER.