What are the best strategies against violent islamist extremism?

Reducing poverty? Saudi-Arabia is a very rich country. Better education? Mohamed Atta studied at the Technical University of Hamburg. Ending diplomatic relations? Hardline mullahs still dominate over Iran reformers. Ending energy dependence on imported fossil fuels thereby cutting the flow of petrodollars? Many people think there are not enough alternatives to satisfy energy-hungry nations.

So what is left? Abandoning hard-earned freedoms of modern civilization and accepting enormous security budgets as a necessary precaution for the next 50 years?

There’s so much innovation out their in the economy, in medicine, in science and technology. People are capable of inventing the telephone, the Internet and the world wide web and online communities like Fluther. Why is it so hard to come up with something totally new and different to reduce islamist terrorism? What happened to human imagination? It might be giving in to resignation.

Do you have a unique idea? Or is there a hardly known strategy people should be talking about?