From Snopes:
Contrary to common rumor, however, neither Jarrett nor her parents are Iranian, nor (as far as well can tell) are any of them Muslim. Jarrett’s parents, James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman, were both American-born U.S. citizens from Washington, D.C. and Chicago, respectively; the couple merely lived in Iran for about six years in the late 1950s and early 1960s while James served as chair of pathology at Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz as part of a program that sent American physicians to work in developing countries.
Valerie was born in Shiraz during the Jarretts’ sojourn in Iran; she returned to the U.S. with her parents in 1962 (when she was five years old), whereupon she attended prep school in Massachusetts, graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978, and earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981 before returning to Chicago to begin her working career. We’ve found no evidence Valerie Jarrett is (or ever was) Muslim, her only apparent connection to that religion being the incidental one that she temporarily lived in a predominantly Muslim country with her American parents for the first few years of her life.
The quote to attributed “Valerie Jarrett, Stanford University, 1977” about her “seek[ing] to help change America to be a more Islamic country” is an unfounded one that has no source other than recent repetition (primarily on right-wing web sites and blogs) and that in its commonly reproduced form is too stilted to be believable as the utterance of a fluent English speaker (e.g., “I am an Iranian by birth and of [sic] my Islamic faith”). No news article or document associated with Stanford University records Jarrett as having made this statement back in 1977; and if there were any credible evidence Jarrett had ever said anything remotely like this, it would have been a well-covered news story since shortly after the 2008 presidential election and not a obscure meme that didn’t pop up until several years later.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/jarrettislam.asp#fvzdy77qIFYZBkFD.99
snopes = libtarded, they are gross. Better source on the VJ:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2418
red diaper baby.
The problem with snopes, it they are often more wrong than any other leftist web “fact/debunking” sites. I don’t give them the time of day.
This photo was taken at the presser for the Jordanian pilot who was burned alive.
She's VERY pleased with a man being burned alive in the name of islam.
Perhaps her parents 'went native', always a risk for diplomats and stary-eyed do-gooders...
PS Snopes has a well established track record of debunking conservatives, and not looking too closely at data against liberals. The confirmation bias is strong in those two.