This is really ridiculous.

Under a part of the German legal code last revised in 1969, a person can be sentenced to a fine or up to three years in jail for "insulting confessions, religious communities or groups promoting a special world view."

I'm not one to believe the right-wing Chicken Little style ravings about Western democracies committing suicide to appease extremist groups, but the fact that Germany has a law on the books that makes it a criminal offense to insult anything really makes me depressed.