Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss Muslim philosopher very well known for his “so-called reform-focused and modern viewpoints”. Some call him a wolf in the guise of a sheep, one who never shows what lies hidden on the back of his tongue. He is a well-versed articulate, agile linguist who manages within an identical speech to proclaim a different message to the Muslim mass followers and to a Western audience. In the following link, you can follow a discourse that he held about Jihad. Amongst others, a Hadith is referred to that proclaims the major Jihad to be a spiritual battle and the minor Jihad an armed conflict. The scholar who proclaims this tells us that this is a Hadith taken from the vast collection of pronouncements. Tariq Ramadan does not rebut this.
Tariq Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Tariq Ramadan has never disavowed his grandfather’s heritage. Yet, Hassan Al-Banna in the following link proclaims that the said “spiritual Hadith” is a weak Hadith and that Jihad means especially “war”.
This page reflects the thinking about Jihad by Tariq Ramadan, the so-called reformer of Islam in Europe. It is compared to the vision of his grandfather Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Botherhood in Egypt.
Tariq Ramadan link
Hassan Al-Banna link