****************I would advocate for a dictatorship aimed at annihilating every one of these religious extremists, then giving the power back to the people.*************************
They would destroy even more the society with their "annihilating" policies than the religous extremist and finally the whole society would turn itself to their extreme side, i would support the whole economic structure to show that "good things comes for good people", something like happened in my country:
I m living in Colombia, and as every war, the guerrilla(extreme left) attacked in most of the cases the civil population in order to damage the the goverment. The attacks done by the guerrilla were awful and, as an answer, the whole society turned into the extreme right and we have the goverment of "Alvaro Uribe". He did pretty good things, in the wrong way(many outlaws things), but he still had the opposition that helped to control the absolute power he had(his best was 84% of the population supporting him).
The same absolute power are held by dictators and i think that's the main reason why those guys got corrupted, i dont really think they wanted to do "mean things" from the very beginning, the mistake was that everyone praised them without telling them the wrong things and we know the result.
You may find a mirror trying to find the other side of the world
