A German man was convicted Thursday of "insulting Islam by printing the word "Koran" on toilet paper and offering it to mosques," Reuters reports.
"The 61-year-old man, identified only as Manfred van H., was given a one-year jail sentence, suspended for five years, and ordered to complete 300 hours of community service, a district court in the western German town of Luedinghausen ruled."
The conviction comes amid the worldwide riots supposedly in response to Danish cartoons insulting Islam.
Manfred "printed out sheets of toilet paper bearing the word "Koran" shortly after a group of Muslims carried out a series of bomb attacks in London in July 2005. He sent the paper to German television stations, magazines and some 15 mosques."
Prosecutors said that a letter he sent with the paper reffered to the Koran as a "cookbook for terrorists."
He also put the paper up for sale online, saying the proceeds would go toward a "memorial to all the victims of Islamic terrorism."
The maximum sentence for insulting religious beliefs under the German criminal code is three years in prison. No word yet on the maximum sentence for murdering 6 million Jews, but cartoons and toilet paper are obviously far, far worse.
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