MUSLIMS may be banned from drinking the world’s most expensive coffee – extracted from the dung of a civet cat – over concerns it is unclean.

People in the world’s most populous Muslim nation have been facing Africa, not Mecca, while praying, it has emerged.

Muslim clerics are seeking ways to regulate online behaviour in Indonesia, saying the exploding popularity of social networking sites like Facebook could encourage illicit sex.

Top Muslim clerics in India said today that the British government had offended Muslims all over the world by conferring a knighthood on novelist Salman Rushdie.