Claim: White House adviser Valerie Jarrett once said she seeks "to help change America to be a more Islamic country."

Snopes says:
                                       FALSE

Sorry, I know many wanted to believe this. The claim:

. . . "Contrary to common rumor, however, neither Jarrett nor her parents are Iranian, nor (as far as we can tell) are any of them Muslim. " . . .

"Valerie was born in Shiraz (Iran) during the Bowmans' sojourn in Iran; she returned to the U.S. with her parents in 1962 (when she was five years old),. . . 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)." . . .

It hurts that the made-up rumor is attributed to the "right-wing" and probably accurately so. This comes not from intellectually conservative sources such as William F. Buckley, Victor Davis Hanson, National Review or many other dependable voices. In fact these rumors do damage to the reputations of great conservative minds and we on the right must not let rumor-mongers speak in our name. 

Enough empirical evidence of the damage done to our nation and allies exists without the need to manufacture any. As with Det. Mark Furman at the O.J. Simpson home, we do not need to frame the already guilty.

The Tunnel Dweller