Can Mozart stop jihad? We’re going to find out, to the tune of one million euros down the drain.

Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said: “These people obviously live in cloud cuckoo land. The Islamist hotbed of Molenbeek is just down the road from the parliament – why don’t they take their workshops there and see what difference it makes? We need proper solutions so let’s get tough on the real causes of radicalisation. This patronising nonsense from the EU will only make things worse.”

Indeed. And what’s more, this “patronising nonsense from the EU” is the direct result of its refusal to address the “real causes of radicalisation.” Because it refuses (like all the other authorities in the Western world) to acknowledge that jihad terrorism is driven by Islamic texts and teachings, it ceaselessly casts about for some other explanation, some other scenario that would make sense of the endless violence coming from committed Muslims. The poor dears just need their savage breasts soothed by Bach and Brahms and Beethoven, you see. Everything is going to be just fine.

“Stop young turning to terror…with classical concerts! EU vote to spend €1m on events sparks ridicule from Eurosceptics,” by John Stevens, Daily Mail, September 29, 2016: