re: How does a place like the UK rid itself of of Wahhabism and Jihadists?

They all harbor radicals, that's the problem

Who would view it as being conducted poorly?

Al-Shabaab

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Wrong, there are ways, though they would not be popular.

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Exactly.

The U.K. could start with simply not interfering with the English Defense League.

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How does a place like the UK rid itself of of Wahhabism and Jihadists?

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Fire.

Don't give up

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You could try a couple of things. First, close any Hanbali derivative school or mosque. How Anjem Choudary could preach there until 2016 without censure is beyond me. You could ask Muslims themselves to suggest which mosques should be closed.

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Agree w/r/t to Choudary as he was openly inciting violence (I don't believe, for instance, he would've had lasted anywhere near as long in our much more liberal speech environment - the Islamic vote is pretty powerful in the UK), but I am always suspect about the state, especially a European state, monitoring speech in such a manner. That could end up back-firing majorly. While it might not do as much good as we hope in the short-run, smashing that sort of thing underground makes it much harder to track and control in the long-run.

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The second suggestion would be much more controversial, and would make a lot of people angry, but you could start funding Islamic schools of your own where the curriculum could be highly controlled. You could pretend that Islamic modernism won out in the beginning of the 20th century, and ignore the Islamist thinkers, effectively attempting to modernize and develop a mode of jurisprudence which is compatible with modernity. Or you could attempt to restart the Neoplatonic and Neoaristotelian conversation. I don't think any one in the West will like this idea in particular, as there would be immediate accusations of supporting Islam.

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That's not a bad idea at all, but I don't think it's sticky enough to actually work. It needs to be organic. People of any culture and religion tend to be able to see through charades given a little bit of time and enough exposure. How an organic movement would actually be fomented is beyond me.

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The key for modernizing Islam relies in its method of jurisprudence. The Salafis especially hate the method the Shia have of justifying certain things through circuitous methods. There are complicated issues that have to be dealt with by Islamic scholars, specifically the idea of interest, as without interest Islamic countries will continue to lag behind in development, and the massive Sunni underclass that becomes the willing recruits of Islamists might grow even larger.

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I actually have a bit of experience here, and the Islamic usury laws aren't really that hard to get around if you have a bit of know-how. What they're really guarding against is true usury - think pay-day loans, predatory car loans with 27% interest on young kids, and the like - and there are actually some Islamic banking principles that are pretty forward-thinking and sound (namely, Mudarabah and Musharaka), and I say that as someone who believes U.S. credit has gotten way too tight post-2008 and that market interest rates are the ultimate and final arbiter of risk in a functioning economic system (i.e., I believe pay-day loans actually serve an economic good). And even all that said, Islamic banking doesn't hold all that many assets of Muslims, even in the Middle East. It's also funny to me because Islamic financial institutions love themselves some quite risky assets like VC (witness: the Saudi sovereign wealth fund buying 4% of Uber), PE, and real estate and can sometimes eschew straight up boring and predictable assets like sovereign debt for, ahem, "Sharia" reasons. Yea, OK, whatever you say.

It's a difficult problem, and I know you are well-read on this topic. The Peninsulars are the equivalent of the Spanish and Portuguese in the 1500's right now - just incredibly zealous (they only united about ninety years ago - similar to the reconquista), really rich, and want to ideologically dominate their world, but they have a power check in the U.S., China, and Europe that didn't exist at the time.

Import people from countries that harbor and/or support terrorism. Allow Sharia law courts. Admonish people that want to secure their countries boarders, place temporary travel bans on high risk populations, and believe the right to bear arms is pertinent to liberty.

Invent a std for goats that is fatal to humans

Eta: that doesn't hurt the goat

Although the uk might lose a bunch of Scotsmen on accident