There’s a cute joke at the beginning of David Zucker’s An American Carol in which the Osama wannabe, staking out a scene with his men, calls over his shoulder to one of his minions: “Mohammed!” And approximately 78 of them shout back, “Yes?”

Meanwhile, back in what passes for the real world, the Yorkshire Telegraph & Argus reports:

A gang of men involved in “atrocious” violent disorder with weapons on the streets of Keighley have been locked up for a total of more than 12 years.
The violence involved baseball bats, metal bars and cricket bats, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.
Mohammed Shabir, 26, of Clarendon Street, Knowle Park, Keighley, who admitted wounding with intent and violent disorder, was jailed for a total of four years and nine months.
Mohammed Junaid Miah, 21, of Acres Street, Knowle Park, received a three years and nine months sentence after admitting violent disorder, conspiracy to steal and money laundering.
Mohammed Habib Ullah, 22, of Malsis Road, Keighley, pleaded guilty to violent disorder and money laundering and was jailed for two and a half years, while Mohammed Kabir Bashir, 24, of Clarendon Street, who admitted violent disorder, was given 21 months in jail.

As Gates of Vienna notes, shortly after 9/11, I remarked that “these days whenever something goofy turns up on the news chances are it involves some fellow called Mohammed”. (In my book, I quote the sarcastic response of the South-East Asian Editor of The Encyclopedia of Islam: “Deep thinking, indeed.”) There were three variously spelled Mohammeds in the Dearborn plot to fund Hizb’Allah through cigarette racketeering, and another three Mohammeds in the Toronto plot to blow up Parliament and behead the prime minister, but I believe this is a new record: The Four Mohammeds* are the first all-Mo gang.

Any quintets out there like to challenge for the prize?

(*Weren’t the Four Mohammeds a Yemeni male vocal group from the Fifties? If memory serves, they had the Arabic hit with “Stranger in Paradise,” from their LP Mo-ments to Remember.)