Uproar as racists urge boycott of school mosque visit
Martin Shipton
A notorious far-right racist group has caused outrage after urging parents to stop their children from taking part in an educational visit to a mosque.
Voice of Wales is run from Swansea and Llanelli by convicted fraudster Dan Morgan and his fellow far-right activist Stan Robinson, who once stated that political journalist Adam Boulton should be castrated with a rusty blade.
In a Facebook post, Voice of Wales has written: “Furnace Welsh Primary School in Llanelli has recently announced a school trip to Swansea, but out of the many attractions Swansea has to offer, what will the children be doing?
“Will they go to Swansea Museum? The oldest museum in Wales? Will they go to the Waterfront Museum? Maybe the new arena or the Grand Theatre? Maybe one of the castles that’s available?
“Don’t be daft, they’re obviously going to Sketty Mosque who seem to have a conveyor belt of children attending!”
After a number of comments that seek to portray Muslims as terrorists and supporters of paedophilia, Voice of Wales states: “Islam is EVIL! DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD ATTEND!!!”
Llanelli Labour town councillor Shaun Greaney told Nation.Cymru: “We’re entering a very dark place in Welsh politics when scoundrels like the so-called Voice of Wales make such bitter and twisted racist remarks designed to incite hatred against the Muslim community attending the mosque in Sketty.
“My other concern is that it puts Furnace School at the centre of a storm of far-right extremism. Such appalling remarks should be investigated by the police. It is high time the Voice of Wales site was taken down on the basis that such comments potentially incite violence. My biggest fear surrounds young people at the school, parents and teachers who have been thrust into the front line through no fault of their own. Visiting a mosque is part of a programme aimed at teaching school students about different religions and cultures so that they can become well-informed and rounded citizens of the future.
“The bile and bigotry of Voice of Wales is aimed at creating division in our communities and I urge Dyfed-Powys Police and South Wales Police to intervene before we have a repeat of the type of scenes we saw when far-right extremists infiltrated the campaign against housing asylum seekers in the Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli.
“I also urge Reform UK to denounce Voice of Wales, one of whose principals openly supports the party.”
Scam
In 2023 Dan Morgan of Voice of Wales was given a six months jail sentence suspended for 12 months for his part in a call-centre scam that involved tricking people into believing they were due substantial PPI refunds. Many of the victims, who were duped into paying £550, were elderly and vulnerable.
Far Right Watch Wales, an anti–fascist group that monitors the activities of the far right in Wales, revealed that Morgan had been using the pseudonym Dewi Draig to run a “Reform Swansea supporters” Facebook group. Later Morgan confirmed during a filmed interview that he would be supporting Reform at the next election.
While some comments beneath Voice of Wales’ Facebook post are supportive of its racist position, others are highly critical.
One stated: “This post isn’t ‘concerned about children’. It’s fear-mongering, misinformation, collective blame and emotional manipulation. If someone wrote the same post replacing Islam with Christianity, most people would instantly recognise it as bigotry.”
‘Nonsense’
Another said: “This is complete nonsense. Fundamentally all religions are peaceful. It’s the minority of people who corrupt their religions and become extremists that cause the problems. And that’s true of all religions. Christian right extremists are just as dangerous as Islamic extremists. Both have a lot of the same views and goals, both twist their religions to justify their own agendas. What’s ironic is that their extremist views and actions actually go against the true tenets of their religions.”
Someone else posted a message saying: “I went to a mosque on a school trip as a child. Look at me now. Completely non-religious. You’re giving Cymru a bad name.”
A further post stated: “Have a bit more respect for our children to have the presence of mind to make up their own minds. Hopefully they will grow into better educated, more rounded and tolerant individuals than some of the previous generations.”
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What on earth has gone wrong with Wales to even allow these types in our communities?
They’re a danger to the public and should be kept well away from anything to do with schools, children and vulnerable people.
My first week in Cardiff walking to the mosque in Canton Cardiff and this random person at the bus stop starts to just tell to go back to where I came from, to stop claiming his benefits and why he despised me. Another 6 months later, another random person comes up to me as I walking on Cowbridge road east in cardiff onna busy Saturday morning and threatens to kill me. Are we going back to those horrible days now? Looks like it.
Deeply saddened to think we are going back to those dreadful racist days. But we beat them then, we will beat them again!
You’ll be pleased to know that the Welsh antifa and anarchist groups are collecting every piece of data about every one of them.
Everyone will get their just deserts eventually.
Wish Cymru had the powers of a normal independent nation! We could exile racist s um like this two deviants!
Cancel culture gone mad.
These two specimens are who we should be protecting our children from. What connection do these scumbags have with Furnace school?
Education is what frightens racists.
Dangerous people in the UK are not people looking for a life, it is people like this.
You’ll never meet a Reform supporter with a degree.
You can’t be smarter than the boss…
(Rev did the “bad boy” get any ‘A’ levels…apart from the ‘Dulwich Doctrine’ obviously?)
These guys need dealing with urgently. Their hate and stupidity are on dangerous levels.
” Voice of Wales”? How dare they pretend to speak for our people? Well done Furnace school taking the trouble to educate your children, to help them understand another of the great religions of the world and see the perspectives of other groups within our communities. Personally, I am not a believer in any god but have been subjected to too much kindness at the hands of Muslims to have other than a good opinion of Islam. However, the point here is not about any particular religion but the broad education of young people. Failure in this regard can lead… Read more »
I think all religious education seems anachronistic in this day and age. Maybe it should be parental choice? As a committed atheist I’m uncomfortable with any religious teaching, especially as it now seems to be hijacked to cause yet more division.
Learning about the world’s religions isn’t the same as religious teaching. All atheists, committed or not, should want to understand more about the world they live in.
Valid point. I guess I would remove all faith schools etc and then simply teach it as part of other subjects in a dispassionate way, no need to visit anything, no complaints etc.
If you remove all faith schools then you remove the very parental choice you earlier celebrated.
Education in general, yes, everyone should learn about what’s out there, but religious indoctrination of children is child abuse and should be dealt with as such.
Agree.
I know people who attend Sketty Mosque and they are amongst the nicest people I have ever known.
If anything people should be advised to stay away from VOW and their deranged supporters.