<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53a7ed1b-1e66-4d0a-8a2b-2e43d3dd897f/39013530-27CB-420E-BE73-94B97378D8BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-901/i.html" href="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-901/i.html" style="font-size: 11px;">en.qantara.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-901/i.html"><DIV>during a roundtable discussion on a charter proposed by the Central Council of Muslims in Germany that was meant to serve as an avowal to the basic principles of the German constitution, two German experts on Islam reproached the Muslim representatives. </DIV><BR /><DIV>They claimed the impossibility of such an avowal Islam is fundamentally irreconcilable with the constitution. 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