Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote about his conversion to Islam in Al-Jazeera yesterday, and it's well worth checking out (especially if, like me, you cannot get enough of conversion narratives).

I have never attempted to make a secret of my love for Airplane! There is a great deal that can be said of me, but not that I ever concealed or minimized my affection for this most excellent of films. Last year at the Turner Classic Film festival at least two of the Zs in ZAZ and Robert Hays were on a panel discussing Airplane! before a late-night showing. I was there with my dad, as is…