The claims were made against Andrew Lye at a Neyland council meeting when members were handed an extract of a 2008 blog he wrote discussing the morality of male circumcision.

Mr Lye sys his blog, entitled ‘Uncut’, was part of a campaign against female genital mutilation, and also questioned the morality of male circumcision.
“I was born with it and cannot understand why any religion should require its removal (I can understand if there is a medical need) because if God didn’t mean us to have one, he’d have created us without one," he said.

Councillor Brian Rothero said in the Monday meeting the blog was stirring up racial hatred towards Jews and Muslims.
"It's nothing short of antisemitic and anti-Muslim," Mr Rothero said.
He proposed a successful vote of no confidence in Mr Lye, who was temporarily removed as mayor ahead of an emergency general meeting.
Mr Lye has since resigned both as mayor and as a councillor.

Three boys have bled to death in recent years post-circumcision in the UK (Celian Noumbiwe, Angelo Ofori-Mintah, and Goodluck Caubergs) and 11 were admitted in just one year to just one hospital with life-threatening haemorrhage or sepsis. An NHS whistleblower, himself a paediatric surgeon, said in 2016 circumcisions were leaving children “maimed for life”.
A Freedom of Information Request to the General Medical Council last year revealed complications of circumcision recorded between 2012 and 2022 included penile deformity, infection, urinary complications and inadequate anaesthesia. Babies required blood transfusions in some cases.
A 2018 YouGov poll showed 62% of the British public would support a law against non-medical circumcision of boys.
NSS: “Andrew Lye spoke up in defence of the bodily integrity and autonomy of children”
NSS campaigns officer Dr Alejandro Sanchez said: “In 2016, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child urged the government to ensure ‘no one is subjected to unnecessary medical or surgical treatment during infancy or childhood’.
“Religious infant circumcision is exactly that: unnecessary, painful and risky surgery on non-consenting children to satisfy religious or cultural beliefs of their parents. Allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia cannot be allowed to silence legitimate criticism of harmful religious practices.