Sauce of her being muslim, plz?
Both her parents are African-American. Valerie was born in Iran because at that time her parents worked there.
''Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran, to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Robert Robinson Taylor, was an architect who was the first accredited African American architect, and the first African American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4]
Her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children in Shiraz in 1956 as part of a program where American physicians and agricultural experts sought to help in the health and farming efforts of developing countries. When she was five years old, the family moved to London for a year, later moving to Chicago in 1963.[5] Her parents were both African American; on the television series Finding Your Roots, genealogical research and DNA testing indicated that Jarrett also has French, Scottish, and Native American ancestry.[6] As a child, Jarrett spoke Persian and French.[7] In 1966, her mother was one of four child advocates who created the Erikson Institute.''
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett