The Swiss-born philosopher Tariq Ramadan is among Europe’s most influential Islamic thinkers. Revered by the Muslim youth on the continent, his unique brand of contemporary Islam is quickly gaining ground in the U.S. But his call for Muslims to fully embrace their religion on one hand, and Western secular society on the other, is prompting a lot of questions.

He can be as controversial as he is charismatic. His criticism of French writers has some calling him an anti-Semite. Yet Ramadan continues to challenge the idea that there is war between Islam and the West. He dismisses those who say the two cultures cannot or should not co-exist. For his attempts to reform Islam, Salon Magazine calls him the new “Muslim Martin Luther”

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Tariq Ramadan, Swiss philosopher and Islamic theoretician.