Latho and Islamic councils federation Last week we saw an on-the-face-of-it curious pairing: the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) welcoming one Mark Latham, pushing his recent “religious freedoms bill”. Now, what on earth is the peak body for Islamic councils doing palling around with the effective second-in-command of a party whose leader thinks halal accreditation funds terrorism, has literally pushed for a ban on the Muslim faith in Australia and briefly put aside her scepticism about vaccines when it allowed her to call Islam a disease.