Muslim extremists target Jemima Khan with death threats

By DAN NEWLING Islamic fundamentalists have threatened Jemima Khan with death for supporting a Muslim thinktank which preaches religious tolerance. Mrs Khan is a patron of the Quilliam Foundation, recently set up by two reformed members of the outlawed extremist organisation Hizb ut Tahrir. The organisation has received death threats by phone and email for all involved - one has even referred to Mrs Khan by name, it is believed.

Angry reaction: A blogger on a website posts pictures of Jemima Khan with her former boyfriend Hugh Grant and kissing Kate Moss - and then comments on her credentials as a Muslim Meanwhile, comments on fundamentalist websites have condemned the 34-year-old's decision to get involved with the group. At the think-tank's launch yesterday, Mrs Khan admitted that since the threats she had been "a little wobbly" about voicing her support for the foundation. But she added: "If there was no response from the dark side, then we would be failing." The organisation was set up by Maajid Nawaz, 30, a former extremist who spent four years as a political prisoner in Egypt.

Glamour: Jemima attending a party in London It is named after William Quilliam, a 19th century Liverpudlian who converted to Islam, and says it aims to reflect mainstream, moderate, British Muslim opinion. Other backers include the former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown and the Tory MP Michael Gove. However, the group has been criticised on some Muslim websites - an apparent attempt to strangle it at birth. One site labels Mrs Khan a "fujiar" - an Arabic word meaning someone who unashamedly and publicly commits sin. Posting pictures of Mrs Khan in a bikini and kissing a female friend at a nightclub, the site says: "This is the same 'socialite' Jemima who is regularly pictured in chick-mags in miniskirts and low-cut dresses hopping in and out of nightclubs - and she is going to be lecturing us on true Islam?!"

It continues: "Getting unmarried, public fujiar, clad in miniskirts and bikinis, to lecture us on true Islamic values, man what has the world come to?" The site also criticises Mr Nawaz for engaging in "un-Islamic" behaviour, such as visiting nightclubs and being friendly with a former girlfriend. Mrs Khan, who was married to Imran Khan, the former cricket captain of Pakistan, was accompanied by a bodyguard at the launch in London. She said: "I can't claim to speak for Muslims. I am certainly very far from most people's image of what a good Muslim is and that makes me an easy target for those who don't want Quilliam to succeed. "Someone has to stand up and tell the truth that there is no conflict between being British and being Muslim. Someone has to give moderate Muslims a voice and I believe that Quilliam is that organisation." The group's co-director Ed Husain, who wrote an award-winning book about his experiences as an extremist, said: "All of this is designed to discredit us in the eyes of members of the Muslim community. "The leaders of these movements are fearful because they know that members have been in touch with us and they want help in order to leave." Mr Nawaz also revealed that he was threatened two weeks ago by disgruntled members of Hizb ut Tahrir. "It was in Copenhagen, in Demark. I was just walking down the street and suddenly three cars full of guys pulled up. They said they were from Hizb ut Tahrir. "They accused me of supporting democracy, which is a crime for them. I felt threatened but luckily managed to get away."

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Jemima Says Her Sons are for Pakistan; No Brit Asian for England Here
Sreelata YellamrazuJun 2 2010

The former wife of former Pakistan captain suggests that despite their mixed parentage, her boys hearts belong to Pakistan cricket even if they fail the test for British Asians.

imran khan jemima ap

Lord Norman Beresford Tebbit has remarked naughtily that the British Asians in the UK showed their loyalty to their adopted home when they supported England as a form of a cricket test. However, Jemima Khan nee Goldsmith, a Brit no less, who married and divorced Imran Khan, says her sons loyalty are first and solely with the Pakistan cricket team, not England as Sulaiman and Qasim who are all of thirteen and eleven years of age, are fans of Pakistan cricket. Jemima also added that she did not care for what anyone else thought and even quipped, Norman would forcibly repatriate Santa Claus to Lapland."
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Jemima Khan
Jemima Marcelle Khan ( /dmam/; ne Goldsmith; born 30 January 1974) is an English writer and campaigner.[1][2][3] She is associate editor of the New Statesman and European editor-at-large for Vanity Fair. She has worked as a charity fundraiser, human rights campaigner and contributing writer for British newspapers and magazines. Khan first gained notice in the United Kingdom as a young heiress, the daughter of Lady Annabel and Sir James Goldsmith. She was married to the retired Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan between 1995 and their divorce in 2004. For the next three years, from 2004 to 2007, Khan gained worldwide media attention for her romantic relationship with British film star Hugh Grant.

Early life and education

Born in London's Westminster Hospital as Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith, Khan is the eldest child of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and Anglo-French financier Sir James Goldsmith. Her parents started a polyamorous relationship in 1964 while they were married to different partners, but in 1978, they married for the sole purpose of legitimizing their children.[4] She has two younger brothers, Zac and Ben, as well as five paternal and three maternal half-siblings, including Robin and India Jane Birley.[5] Khan grew up at Ormeley Lodge while attending the Old Vicarage preparatory school and Francis Holland School. Between the ages of ten and seventeen she was an accomplished equestrienne in London.[4] Khan enrolled at the University of Bristol in 1993, but dropped out to get married in 1995. Khan eventually submitted her dissertation in March 2002 gaining a 2:1 bachelor's degree in English.[6] She later completed an MA in Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS, University of London, reading Modern Trends in Islam.[7]

Marriage to Imran Khan

Jemima married Imran Khan, a retired Pakistani cricketer turned politician, on 16 May 1995 in a traditional Islamic ceremony in Paris.[8] The couple later participated in a civil ceremony on 21 June at the Richmond Register Office,[9] which was followed by a midsummer ball at Ormeley Lodge.[10] Raised a Protestant,[6] she converted to Islam a few months before her wedding,[5] citing the writings of Muhammad Asad, Gai Eaton, and Alija Izetbegovi as her influences.[11] She also learned to speak Urdu and wore traditional Pakistani clothes. In 2008, she wrote that she "over-conformed in [her] eagerness to be accepted" into the "new and radically different culture" of Pakistan.[12] In 1999, in an accusation which was no doubt politically motivated,[citation needed] Khan was charged in Pakistan with the non-bailable crime of illegally exporting tiles claimed to be centuries-old antiques of the Islamic era. She stayed with her mother for a year due to fear of incarceration[13] and returned to Pakistan only after the case was dropped following General

Pervez Musharraf's military coup.[14] She returned to the UK full-time in September 2003 to study for a Masters degree at SOAS. Her ex-husband has said that they decided to divorce because he never had time for his family owing to his life in Pakistani politics. Their divorce was announced on 22 June 2004.[15]

Relationship with Hugh Grant

In 2004, Khan became involved in a romantic relationship with Hugh Grant. She gained a new level of prominence during the three years she and Grant were partners. A 2005 article in the Evening Standard magazine noted that while "Jemima's profile" was high during her first marriage, it was "soaring since she became involved with Hugh Grant".[16] As he was followed relentlessly by the paparazzi and featured in print and television media worldwide, Khan's relationship with Grant was scrutinized extensively by the tabloids.[17] A survey of visitors to London in 2005 showed that Khan and Grant were the couple with whom a majority of visitors wanted to travel the city.[18] In 2007, Khan accompanied Grant on the red carpet at the London and New York premieres of his movie Music and Lyrics. After three years of the high profile romance, in February 2007, Grant announced that the couple had "decided to split amicably".[19] Grant's spokesman added: "Hugh has nothing but positive things to say about Jemima."[19]

Career
Khan was a feature writer and a contributing editor for British Vogue from 2008 to 2011. In 2011 Khan was appointed Vanity Fairs new European editor-at-large.[20] She was Associate Editor at the Independent newspaper which she left to become Associate editor of the New Statesman in November 2011. Khan has contributed op-eds to England's newspapers and magazines such as The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Evening Standard and the Observer.[21][22][23][24] In 2008, she was granted an exclusive interview with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the eve of the elections, for The Independent.[25] She was a Sunday Telegraph columnist from 21 October 2007 to 27 January 2008.[26] In April 2011, Khan guest-edited the New Statesman and themed the issue around freedom of speech. She interviewed the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and included contributions from Russell Brand, Tim Robbins, Simon Pegg, Oliver Stone, Tony Benn, Julian Assange, and cover art by Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst.[27] The magazine sold out and the website crashed. According to Nick Cohen in the Observer "Jemima Khan was by a country mile the best editor of the New Statesman that that journal has had since the mid-1970s". Perhaps the most surprising piece in the magazine was "an unexpected scoop" from Hugh Grant who went undercover to hack Paul McMullan, a former News of the World journalist, who had been involved in hacking as a reporter.[28] However, one reader's letter to the New Statesman published in the following week's edition stated: "Jason Cowley's choices for guest editor to date are surely calculated to aggravate the NS readership. First Alastair Campbell is invited to present his gloss on the New Labour story; now

Jemima Khan (11 April issue) gets to produce a variant of Hello! magazine, wherein her glittering friends share with us the contents, not of their homes, but of their minds. It takes considerable effort to avoid celebrities (and Old Etonians) nowadays, but I don't expect to be Trojan-horsed by a left-wing paper."

Charity and other works

In 1998, Khan launched an eponymous fashion label that employed poor Pakistani women to embroider western clothes with eastern handiwork[29] to be sold in London and New York.[30][31] Profits were donated to the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital but the company was closed in 2001.[31] In 2001, she established the Jemima Khan Afghan Refugee Appeal to provide tents, clothing, food, and healthcare for Afghan refugees at Jalozai camp in Peshawar.[32][33] Khan became an Ambassador for UNICEF UK in 2001 and went on field trips to Kenya, Romania, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where she helped victims of the 2005 earthquake by raising emergency funds. She has promoted UNICEF's Breastfeeding Manifesto,[34] Growing Up Alone[35] and End Child Exploitation campaigns in the UK.[36][37] Khan is a supporter of the Soil Association,[38] and children's charities like HOPING foundation for Palestinian refugee children.[39] She is a patron of the Quilliam Foundation, recently set up by two reformed members of the extremist organisation Hizb ut Tahrir. In 2008, Khan received death threats from Islamic fundamentalists for supporting and speaking at the launch of the Muslim think-tank which preaches religious tolerance.[40] In 2007, Khan set up the Free Pakistan Movement. She, her family and friends, participated alongside hundreds of protestors in three demonstrations outside Downing Street to protest the state of emergency in Pakistan, during which her ex-husband was incarcerated.[41] In 2008, she modeled the relaunched Azzaro Couture fragrance and was a guest co-designer of a Spring 2009 collection for Azzaro, with her fee reportedly donated to UNICEF.[42][43] Together with John Pilger and Ken Loach, Jemima Khan was among the six people in Westminster Magistrates Court willing to post bail for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010. She has campaigned against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as for freedom of information, attending Assanges extradition hearings and speaking at the Stop the War Coalition's rally in defence of Wikileaks alongside Tony Benn and Tariq Ali. Khan runs a charitable foundation, the Jemima Khan Foundation. She sponsors the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, an explicitly subversive award given to the journalist that best exposes Establishment conduct and its propaganda.[44]

Khan featured in the new television advertising campaign for The Independent newspaper and reportedly donated her fee to charity.[45] Khan has campaigned against the use of drones by the CIA in Pakistans tribal areas.[46]

Social and personal life

As voted by readers of the Daily Telegraph, she won the Rover People's Award for the best dressed female celebrity at the 2001 British Fashion Awards.[30] Khan was featured on Vanity Fair's Annual International Best-Dressed List in 2004, 2005 and 2007.[47] She attended the Women of Achievement Reception at Buckingham Palace, on 11 March 2004. Khan is known to be shy,[48][49] modest, stylish, and levelheaded,[50][51] with her ex-husband describing her as "very shy".[52] Khan has two sons from her marriage with Imran Khan, Sulaiman Isa (born 1996) and Kasim (born 1999). Because she wants to have the same last name as her children, she goes by Jemima Khan.[53] On 29 December 2000, Khan and her family were on a British Airways jet to Kenya that was temporarily knocked off course and dived thousands of feet, after a mentally ill [54] passenger tried to seize controls in the cockpit.[55] Her mother later said, "Jemima was frightened of flying even before the incident; she's petrified [now]".[56] Khan, like her two brothers, reportedly inherited around 300 million from her late father's 1.2 billion fortune (at 1997 currency rates). In 2010 Khan purchased the country house of Kiddington Hall near Woodstock in Oxfordshire for a reported 15 million, which is now currently under refurbishment. [57] Diana, Princess of Wales was a close friend of Khans, visiting her twice in Lahore, Pakistan the year that she died[citation needed]. Khan holds dual British and Pakistani citizenship.[58]

Lady Annabel Goldsmith (Imrans mother in law)

Lady Annabel Goldsmith (born 11 June 1934) is a British socialite and the eponym for a celebrated London nightclub of the late 20th century, Annabel's.[1] She was first married for two decades to entrepreneur Mark Birley, the creator of Annabel's, which she helped make a glamorous success as her husband's inaugural members-only Mayfair club. Known in London as a society hostess, during the 1960s and the 1970s, she gained notoriety in gossip columns for her extramarital affair with Anglo-French financier Sir James Goldsmith, who later became her second husband. A descendant and heiress of the Londonderry family, her primary occupation has been as a mother of six children whose births span 25 years. She is also an author and founder of the Democracy Movement, a Eurosceptic pressure group. Her son Zac Goldsmith is the Conservative MP for Richmond Park.

Background and Image

The second of three children, Lady Annabel was born in London into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family with its roots in Ulster and County Durham. Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart was born the daughter of Viscount Castlereagh, who later became the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, and Romaine Combe, who was the daughter of Major Boyce Combe from a middle-class family in Surrey. She became Lady Annabel as a young girl in February 1949 when her father became Marquess on the death of his father, the famous Ulster Unionist politician the 7th Marquess of Londonderry. Her mother died of cancer in 1951, but the illness was kept a secret by her parents. She later said, "Cancer was such a taboo then - Mummy didn't even tell her sisters."[2] Subsequently, her father became a chronic alcoholic and died from liver failure at 52 on 17 October 1955. "My father was a really wonderful man but after my mother died, we couldn't talk to him as we had done before. He couldn't face life without her and he turned into Jekyll and Hyde almost overnight," she explained.[3] She was named after her mother's favourite song, "Miss Annabel Lee", and grew up as a country child at her family's former estates of Mount Stewart, Wynyard Park, and Londonderry House.[1] She was educated at Southover Manor School in Sussex and Cuffy's Tutorial College in Oxford. Awkward and shy, in her youth, she was an avid reader, equestrian,[4] and a Girl Guide for the Bullfinch Patrol.[5] She transformed from an unconfident and self-described "skinny, gauche young girl"[1] into a socialite during the 1950s and 1960s.[5] As part of the London social circle, she is known for her sense of humour, down-to-earth personality, and love of children and dogs.[3][5] Though never a drinker, she chain smoked until the age of 40.[5]

Family
Lady Annabel is the mother of Rupert, Robin and India Jane Birley plus Jemima, Zac and Ben Goldsmith. She has referred to herself as "an incredible mother, rather a good mistress, but not a very good wife".[4] With six children and five miscarriages,[5] her primary vocation was motherhood, which prompted her to say: "I'm not judgmental about women who work, but I was so besotted with my children I never wanted them out of my sight."[6] She was also considered a mother figure by her nieces, Ladies Cosima and Sophia Vane-Tempest-Stewart,[4] and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.[1] As the wife and ex-wife of two unfaithful men, she explained her marriage philosophy to the Times in 1987: "I can never understand the wives who really mind, the wives who set such store by fidelity. How extraordinary, and how mad they are. Because, surely, if the man goes out and he comes back, it's not actually doing any harm."[7]

Annabel's and the Birleys

On 10 March 1954, at the age of 19, she married businessman Mark Birley at the Caxton Hall register office in London. Birley famously paid tribute to her by naming in her honour his renowned nightclub, Annabel's, which opened on 4 June 1963 and was run by Birley for more than forty years. During the 1960s, Lady Annabel was a constant presence at Annabel's, known

as one of the grandest nightclubs of the sixties and seventies, where she entertained guests ranging from Ted and Robert F. Kennedy to Frank Sinatra, Prince Charles, Richard Nixon, and Muhammad Ali.[1][8] "I used to be there every night, even when I had three small children to take to school the next day. It was like a second home to me," she recalled.[9] She raised her three children with Birley at Pelham cottage. Her eldest son Rupert, who was born on 20 August 1955, studied at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1986, he disappeared off the coast of Togo in West Africa,[10] where he was presumed drowned.[11] "There really is nothing worse than losing a child - and there is something special about your first-born," she said, adding that, "Because I was so young when Rupert was born ... we were more like good friends than mother and son."[2] Her second son Robin (b. 19 February 1958) is a businessman, whose face was disfigured as a child when he was mauled by a tigress at John Aspinall's private zoo. Having let him go near the pregnant tigress, Lady Annabel said, "It was my own fault. I was, am, angry with myself."[2] Her first daughter India Jane (b. 14 January 1961), the granddaughter of society portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley, is an artist. The Birleys separated in 1972 and later divorced in 1975 after the birth of her second child with James Goldsmith.[12] "Our breakup was because of Mark's infidelities, not because I fell in love with Jimmy," she told Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth after Birley's death. Revealing that Birley had numerous other girlfriends from the beginning of their relationship,[13] she added: "I think he was absolutely incapable of being faithful. He was a serial adulterer. Like a butterfly, he had to seduce every woman.[14] Despite their divorce, the two remained best friends and soulmates, talking to each other every day and holidaying together until Birley's death in August 2007.[8][13] Birley said they were "the true loves of each other's lives".[4]

Goldsmith affair and remarriage

In 1964, she embarked on a decade-long extramarital affair with the entrepreneur Sir James Goldsmith. Attracted by his flashiness, she said, she was "Mad about Jimmy. Loved Mark desperately."[15] Though both she and Goldsmith, who was then married to his second wife Ginette Lery, believed that the affair would be a passing fling, it soon gained her notoriety in London's gossip columns as a modern British mistress. For years, she repeatedly refused Goldsmith's suggestion of starting a family, stating, "I didn't want to hurt Mark any more than I had."[15] She was eventually coaxed into having his children by their mutual friend John Aspinall, an estranged former friend of Mark Birley who introduced her to Goldsmith.[16] While still legally married to Birley, she gave birth to Jemima (b. 30 January 1974), who later married cricketeer Imran Khan; and Zac (b. 20 January 1975), who is the estranged husband of writer Sheherazade Ventura-Bentley.[12] Her last child Ben Goldsmith was born on 28 October 1980 at 46, after two consecutive miscarriages. The children were raised in Ormeley Lodge in Ham, London. The half-Jewish and half-Catholic Goldsmith was an occasional presence in their lives as he divided time between three families.[17][18] In 1978, Goldsmith and Lady Annabel married solely to legitimize their children.[4] "We didn't marry as a great act of passion. More to make sure that the children's name would be Goldsmith when they went to school," she explained.[19]

Goldsmith moved to New York with his new mistress Laure Boulay, Comtesse de la Meurthe in 1981 and spent the last years of his life mostly in France and Mexico. He became known for quoting Sacha Guitry's words, "If you marry your mistress you create a job vacancy." Often wrongly credited with the quote, Goldsmith admitted, "I quoted him at dinner, and it was pinned on me. I don't mind. ... I just don't want to claim what's not mine."[20] On his infidelities, Lady Annabel revealed that, despite her aversion to any form of confrontation,[21] "I did feel jealous. I used to scream at him."[15] In 1997, she and her youngest three children inherited a portion of Goldsmith's wealth, estimated varyingly at 1.6[22] or between $1.7-$2.4[23] billion.

Present
She resides in Ormeley Lodge, a 6-acre (24,000 m2) Georgian mansion on the edge of Richmond Park, with two Grand Basset Griffon Vendeens, Daisy and Lily,[24] and three Norfolk terriers, Barney, Boris and Bindy.[25] In 2003, she remarked on her children's varied marital patterns by observing, "All my children with James marry young and breed, and my children with Mark do the opposite."[13] She has nine grandchildren, including Robin Birley's non-marital daughter Maud.[12] She spends part of each year at her 250-acre (1.0 km2) organic farm in the hills above Benahavis[26] and has a 1930s holiday home by the seaside in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.[27][28] Asked about her regrets in life, in 2004, she confessed wishing that she had, instead of marrying twice, been "a one-man woman".[6][29] "I wouldn't recommend anyone to do what I've done. To marry someone and grow old with them must be much better," she said.[15]

Activism and philanthropy

Lady Annabel is president of the Richmond Park branch of The Royal Society of St George, a patriotic outreach society aimed to motivate youth.[30] She is a donor and supporter of the Countryside Alliance,[31] an environmental charity called The Soil Association, and African Solutions to African Problems (ASAP), which works to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa.[32] As an animal lover, she is also one of the patrons of the Dogs Trust[33] and a supporter of the Battersea Dogs & Cats Home,[34] along with being Vice President of the British Show Pony Society.[35] She had early interest in journalism but declined a low-level position at the Daily Mail at age 19 to get married instead.[4] She has since contributed opinion editorials to national newspapers such as the Sunday Times,[36] the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph,[26][37] among others.[38][39] Inspired by Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy's radio address during the Hungarian Revolution, in November 1956, she and Mark Birley volunteered with the Save the Children organization in Vienna. She organized charitable donations and traveled daily to look after refugees who crossed the Austrian border into the frontier town of Andau.[4] In May 1997, she campaigned with her second husband in Putney, the constituency unsuccessfully contested by Goldsmith for his Referendum Party.[26][40] She continued to support her husband's ideas, like the single currency referendum, after his death as part of the Referendum Movement, which was headed by Paul Sykes and Lord McAlpine and of which she became honorary President.[36][41]

In January 1999, she launched the Democracy Movement, of which she was President[26] and her son Robin was chairman until 2004.[42] Starting from 12 January 2001, the organization launched a 500,000 advertising and leafleting campaign to expose the parliamentary votes of proBrussels candidates in 120 "target" seats before the May general elections.[43] The Democracy Movement released two million pamphlets carrying gloom-ridden headlines about a European state and published full page local newspaper advertisements in the constituencies of 70 Labour MPs, 35 Liberal Democrats, six Conservatives and three Scottish National Party candidates.[44] Describing the campaign as an effort "in memory of Jimmy", she said:

I'm not anti-European - my husband was half European and my children are a quarter French. I just don't want to be governed by Brussels, and I don't think people want to give up their sovereignty. Jimmy used to describe it as sitting at the top of the mountain watching a train crash - that was like us heading for the European superstate.[45]

On 17 December 2007, she testified at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, where she denied the perception that the princess was in love with and/or pregnant by Dodi Fayed.[46][47] "She was in love with Hasnat Khan. I felt she was still on the rebound from Hasnat Khan... She might have been having a wonderful time with him, Im sure, but I thought her remark that she needed marriage like a rash meant that she was not serious about it," Lady Annabel told the jury.[48] She also participated in a demonstration outside Downing Street in November 2007 to protest against President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan.[49]

Democracy Movement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about a political group in the United Kingdom. For the political movement in China, see Chinese democracy movement.

The Democracy Movement (DM) is a crossparty Eurosceptic pressure group in the UK with around 150 local branches. The Democracy Movement was founded by Lady Annabel Goldsmith in January 1999. She became its President[1] and her son, businessman Robin Birley, served as the organisation's chairman until 2004.[2] Democracy Movement originated from the ideas and campaign of the late James Goldsmith's Referendum Party in 1998. At its launch, describing the campaign as an effort "in memory of Jimmy", Lady Annabel said: I'm not anti-European - my husband was half European and my children are a quarter French. I just don't want to be governed by Brussels, and I don't think people want to give up their sovereignty. Jimmy used to describe it as sitting at the top of the mountain watching a train crash - that was like us heading for the European superstate.[3]

The DM is funded by donations from grassroots supporters although the Goldsmith family and the Eurosceptic businessman Paul Sykes have made large campaign donations in the past.

Policy positions
This section relies on references to primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject, rather than references from independent authors and third-party publications. Please add citations from reliable sources. (May 2008)

It campaigns on a number of eurosceptic issues such as opposing Britain entering Economic and Monetary Union the Eurozone and has also campaigned against the EU Constitution. Its opposition to the euro is on the grounds that the British government would lose control over interest rates, exchange rates and spending on public services. On the EU Constitution the Democracy Movement claims that far from being a 'tidying up exercise' of existing treaties and powers as the government claims, the Constitution represents a fundamental change in the nature of the EU and a significant increase in the centralisation of decision-making power in Brussels. The Democracy Movement calls for the dismantling of the EU and its replacement with a new flexible and voluntary form of co-operation between European governments, called the 'Europe of Democracies'. Powers will be decentralised from Brussels back to elected national parliaments whose laws will resume legal precedence. Trade will be facilitated between countries within Europe and across the World, and an internationalist outlook will be developed. Billions of pounds from the Brussels budget will be re-distributed to the peoples of Europe.

Activism
On 12 January 2001, the DM launched an advertising and leafleting campaign, worth around 500,000, to expose the parliamentary votes of pro-Brussels candidates before the May general elections.[4] The organisation released two million pamphlets that carried provocative headlines about the horrors of a European state and published full page local newspaper advertisements in the constituencies of politicians in 120 "target" seats. These included 70 Labour MPs, 35 Liberal Democrats, six Conservatives and three Scottish National Party candidates.[5]

James Goldsmith
Sir James Michael "Jimmy" Goldsmith (26 February 1933 18 July 1997) was an AngloFrench billionaire financier and tycoon.[1] Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived eurosceptic Referendum Party in the United Kingdom. He was known for his many romantic relationships and for the various children he fathered with his wives and many girlfriends. Goldsmith was the inspiration for the character of the corporate raider Sir Larry Wildman in Oliver Stone's Wall Street[2] On his death,

Tony Blair stated: "He was an extraordinary character and though I didn't always agree with his political views, obviously, he was an amazing and interesting, fascinating man." While Margaret Thatcher stated: "Jimmy Goldsmith was one of the most powerful and dynamic personalities that this generation has seen. He was enormously generous, and fiercely loyal to the causes he espoused."[3]

Early life and family background

Born in Paris,[4] Goldsmith was the son of luxury hotel tycoon and former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Major Frank Goldsmith and his French wife Marcelle Moullier, and younger brother of environmental campaigner Edward Goldsmith. His father was Jewish and his mother Catholic; both Goldsmith and his brother were baptized in Catholicism: that was considered afterwards as a formality. Goldsmith attended Eton, but dropped out in 1949. Two years later, having attended Millfield as one of its earliest pupils, Goldsmith joined the army after his father had paid off gambling debts he had incurred.[5] Goldsmith's father Frank changed the family name from the German Goldschmidt to the English Goldsmith. The Goldschmidts, neighbors and rivals to the Rothschild family, were a wealthy, Frankfurt-based, Jewish family, who had been influential figures in international merchant banking since the 16th century. James' great-grandfather was Benedict Hayum Salomon Goldschmidt, banker and consul to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. James' grandfather Adolphe Benedict Goldschmidt (18381918), a multi-millionaire, came to London in 1895.[4]

Career
During the 50s and 60s Goldsmith's involvement in finance in his early years was more as a gambler than an industrialist, and brought him several times close to bankruptcy.[6] His successes included winning the British franchise for Alka-Seltzer and introducing low-cost generic drugs to the UK. He was a greenmail corporate raider and asset stripper. With the financial backing of Sir Isaac Wolfson,[7] he acquired diverse food companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange as Cavenham Foods. This included Bovril - acquisition of which he financed by selling its assets in South America and elsewhere.[7] As journalists began to question his techniques of dealing with the funds and assets of publicly-quoted companies, Goldsmith began dealing through private companies registered in the UK and abroad. These included the French company Gnrale Occidentale and Hong Kong and then Cayman-registered General Oriental Investments. During the 60s and 70s Goldsmith had backing by the finance company Slater, Walker, run by Jim Slater. When Slater, Walker crashed and had to be rescued by the Bank of England in 1975, eyebrows rose when it was handed to Goldsmith for its final dismemberment through his private companies.[8] Goldsmith was knighted in the 1976 resignation honours - the so-called "Lavender List" - of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. In early 1980, he partnered with longtime friend and merchant banker, Sir Roland Franklin. Franklin managed Goldsmiths business in the Americas. From 1983 until 1988, Goldsmith, via takeovers in America, built a private holding company,

Cavenham Forest Industries, which became one of the largest private owners of timberland and one of the top-five timber-holding companies of any type in America. Goldsmith and Franklin identified a quirk in American accounting whereby companies with substantial timberland holdings would often carry them on their balance sheets at a US $1 valuation (as the result of years of depreciation). Goldsmith, a reader of financial statements, realised that in many instances the underlying value of the timberland assets alone, carried at nearly zero value, was worth the target company's market capitalisation. With this insight, Goldsmith began raids that left him with a holding company with huge tracts of timberland acquired at virtually no net cost. Additionally, in 1986 Goldsmith's companies reportedly made $90 million from an attempted hostile takeover of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Goldsmith retired to Mexico in 1987, having anticipated the market crash that year and liquidated assets. However he continued corporate raiding, including an attempt on BritishAmerican Tobacco in 1989 (for which he joined Kerry Packer and Jacob Rothschild). He also swapped his American timber assets for a 49.9 percent stake in Newmont Mining and remained on the board of Newmont until he liquidated his stake through open-market trades in 1993. He was precluded by the original purchase of Newmont from trying to take over the company. In 1990, Goldsmith also began a lower-profile, but also profitable, global "private equity style" investment operation. By 1994 executives working in his employ in Hong Kong had built a substantial position in the intermediation of global strategic raw-material flows. Studies of public filings have found signs of the same Goldsmith-backed Hong Kong-based team taking stakes in operations as diverse as Soviet strategic ports in Vladivostok and Vostochny, and in Zee TV, India's dominant private television broadcaster later sold to Rupert Murdoch. A large Hong Kong-linked and Goldsmith-funded stake in one of the world's largest nickel operations, INCO Indonesia, was also disclosed in the 1990s, showing Goldsmith's ability to position capital before a trend became obvious to others. The Group was also a major backer of the Hong Kong based and Singapore listed major raw material player Noble Group,[citation needed] with low-profile longtime Goldsmith protg Tobias Brown serving for many years as the company's non-executive Chairman. Although little is known about the somewhat enigmatic Brown, he is widely credited with orchestrating the Goldsmith investments in the Far East, which have created more than a third of the family's wealth.

Personal life
Goldsmith was married three times, and was claimed to have coined the phrase: "When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy." However, the phrase was coined by Sacha Guitry.[9] His first wife, whom he married when 20, was the Bolivian heiress Maria Isabel Patio, 17-yearold daughter of tin magnate Antenor Patio and the 3rd Duchess of Drcal, of the Spanish royal family. When Goldsmith proposed the marriage to Antenor Patio, Patio is alleged to have said, "We are not in the habit of marrying Jews", to which Goldsmith is reported to have replied, "Well, I am not in the habit of marrying [Red] Indians."[4] This story, if true, is typical of Goldsmith's humour. With the heiress pregnant and the Patios insisting the pair separate, the couple eloped in January 1954. The marriage was brief. Rendered comatose by a cerebral hemorrhage in her seventh month of pregnancy, Maria Isabel Patio y Goldsmith died in May 1954; her only child, Isabel, survived and was delivered by Caesarian section. She was brought

up by Goldsmith's family, and was married a few years to French sportsman Arnaud de Rosnay. On her father's death, she inherited a large share of his estate.[10] Isabel has since become a successful art-collector.[11]

Zac Goldsmith, a Conservative Member of Parliament

Goldsmith's second wife was Ginette Lery, with whom he had a son, Manes, and daughter, Alix. In 1978, he married for the third time; his new wife was his mistress Lady Annabel VaneTempest-Stewart, daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry; the couple had three children, Jemima (born in 1974), Zacharias (born in 1975) and Benjamin (born in 1980). Zac and Jemima have both become much reported upon figures in the British media; in 2003 Ben married heiress Kate Emma Rothschild (b. 1982), daughter of the late Amschel Rothschild and his wife Anita Guinness of the Guinness Brewery family. Speculation about Goldsmith's romantic life was a popular topic in the British media: for example, in the press, there were a number of claims that James Goldsmith was the illegitimate father of family friend Princess Diana, due to his friendship with Diana's mother, and later with Diana.[12][13] After his third marriage, Goldsmith embarked on an affair with an aristocratic Frenchwoman, Laure Boulay de la Meurthe, with whom he had two more children. He treated Mrs de la Meurthe as his wife and introduced her as such during the last years of his life. Goldsmith died at 64 of a heart attack brought about by pancreatic cancer.

Goldsmith and the media

Goldsmith is known for his legal attack on the magazine Private Eye, which referred to him as "Sir Jams" and in Goldsmith's Referendum Party period as "Sir Jams Fishpaste". In 1976 he issued more than 60 libel writs against Private Eye and its distributors, nearly bankrupting the magazine and almost imprisoning its editor Richard Ingrams. This story is detailed in Ingrams' book Goldenballs! The publisher of the magazine was Anthony Blond, an old friend; Blond and Goldsmith themselves remained on good terms. Goldsmith also pursued vendettas against other journalists who queried his methods, including Barbara Conway who wrote the Scrutineer column in the City pages of the Daily Telegraph. In November 1977, Goldsmith made a

notorious appearance on The Money Programme on BBC television when he accused the programme of making up lies about him and stormed off the set.[14] In 1977 Goldsmith bought the French weekly L'Express and between 1979 and 1981 published the UK news magazine NOW! which failed to survive.[15] Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street featured a British billionaire financier, Sir Laurence Wildman. This character was modeled on Goldsmith as stated by the film's director Oliver Stone in the DVD special feature documentary and the director's commentary as Sir Laurence Wildman is introduced.

Politics
Goldsmith, like his friends Lord Lucan and John Aspinall, believed Britain had been victim of a socialist conspiracy and that communists had infiltrated the Labour party and the media.[16] In the mid-1990s, Goldsmith was a financial backer of a Euro-sceptic think tank, the European Foundation. In 1994 he became an elected member of the European Parliament representing France, as a member of the Majorit pour l'autre Europe and leader of the eurosceptic Europe of Nations group in the European Parliament. Goldsmith founded and funded the Referendum Party in the UK, on the lines as Majorit pour l'autre Europe, which stood candidates in the 1997 general election. Goldsmith mailed five million homes with a VHS tape expressing his ideas. It has been suggested he planned to broadcast during the election from his offshore pirate Referendum Radio station.[17] In the 1997 election, Goldsmith stood for his party in the London constituency of Putney, against former Conservative minister David Mellor. Goldsmith stood no chance of victory, but the declaration of the result was memorableMellor lost his seat to the Labour candidate and was taunted by Goldsmith who clapped his hands slowly and chanted "out, out, out!" along with others. Goldsmith's electoral performance was, however, feeble: the 1518 votes did not deny victory to Mellor, who lost by 2976 votes; moreover they amounted to under 5% of those voting and were not sufficient for Goldsmith to retain his candidate's deposit of 500.[18] Mellor correctly predicted that the Referendum Party was "dead in the water", and it effectively died with Goldsmith who died two months after the election. The seat was regained by the Conservatives in the 2005 General Election. Goldsmith's estate has provided finance for the JMG Foundation[19] which supports a diverse range of non-governmental organisations campaigning against GMO foodstuffs.

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Marriage to Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith

On 16 May 1995, Khan married Jemima Goldsmith, in an Islamic ceremony in Paris. A month later, on 21 June, they were married again in a civil ceremony at the Richmond register office in England, followed by a reception at the Goldsmiths' house in Surrey.[9] The marriage, described as "tough" by Khan,[6] produced two sons, Sulaiman Isa (born 18 November 1996) and Kasim (born 10 April 1999).[10] As an agreement of his marriage, Khan spent four months a year in England. On 22 June 2004, it was announced that the Khans had divorced because it was "difficult for Jemima to adapt to life in Pakistan".[11] The marriage ended amicably. Imran has regular access to his children and his relationship with his ex-wife is friendly. Khan now resides in Bani Gala, Islamabad, where he built a farmhouse with the money he gained from selling his

London flat. He grows fruit trees, wheat, and keeps cows, while also maintaining a cricket ground for his two sons, who visit during their holidays.[6]

Criticism
During the 1970s and 1980s, Khan became known as a socialite due to his "non-stop partying" at London nightclubs such as Annabel's and Tramp, though he claims to have hated English pubs and never drunk alcohol.[3][6][25][41] He also gained notoriety in London gossip columns for romancing young debutantes such as Susannah Constantine, Lady Liza Campbell and the artist Emma Sergeant.[6] Khan is often dismissed as a political lightweight[44] and a celebrity outsider in Pakistan,[18] where national newspapers also refer to him as a "spoiler politician".[51] The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, has asserted that Khan is "a sick person who has been a total failure in politics and is alive just because of the media coverage".[52] Political observers say the crowds he draws are attracted by his cricketing celebrity, and the public has been reported to view him as a figure of entertainment rather than a serious political authority.[49] Declan Walsh in The Guardian newspaper in England in 2005 described Khan as a "miserable politician," observing that, "Khan's ideas and affiliations since entering politics in 1996 have swerved and skidded like a rickshaw in a rainshower... He preaches democracy one day but gives a vote to reactionary mullahs the next."[53] The charge constantly raised against Khan is that of hypocrisy and opportunism, including what has been called his life's "playboy to puritan U-turn."[18] Political commentator Najam Sethi, stated that, "A lot of the Imran Khan story is about backtracking on a lot of things he said earlier, which is why this doesnt inspire people."[18] In 2008, as part of the Hall of Shame awards for 2007, Pakistan's Newsline magazine gave Khan the "Paris Hilton award for being the most undeserving media darling." The 'citation' for Khan read: "He is the leader of a party that is the proud holder of one National Assembly seat (and) gets media coverage inversely proportional to his political influence." The Guardian has described the coverage garnered by Khan's post-retirement activities in England, where he made his name as a cricket star and a night-club regular, as "terrible tosh, with danger attached. It turns a great (and greatly miserable) Third World nation into a gossip-column annexe. We may all choke on such frivolity."[54] After the 2008 general elections, political columnist Azam Khalil addressed Khan as one of the "utter failures in Pakistani politics".[55]
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Imran Khan reunited with Jemima as politician launches stinging rebuke of US drone attacks on Pakistan
Pakistani politician Imran Khan was watched by his ex-wife Jemima today as he launched a stinging rebuke of drone attacks on militants in the country. Khan was speaking at a press conference in Islamabad alongside British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith who is fighting the case for drone victims in the British courts. Khan, who is chairman of the Tehrik-e-Insaf politcal party, said that many of the victims of the attacks were women and children and that the Pakistani government was responsible for their deaths.

Imran Khan, pictured with Clive Stafford Smith, has launched an attack on drone strikes in Pakistan, claiming they cost many civilian lives

Listening in: Khan's ex wife Jemima was at the press conference in Islamabad to hear his views

Attracting attention: Jemima Khan speaks with a journalist at the press conference. It was revealed that she has helped paid for digital cameras so Pakistanis can document the drone attacks

He added that government should resign if they cannot fulfill their responsibilities to protect the Pakistani people. Khan added that the nation's airforce had the technology to shoot down drones, but added that many of the attacks were backed by the government. Khan told the crowd: 'According to the Pakistani constitution the democratic government is responsible; if the government cannot fulfill its responsibilities then it should give way to other parties,' Khan and Stafford Smith also showed off the remains of one missile fired from a drone on an attack on the country's tribal region.

Deadly: The two men showed this shell of a missile used in an attack to the press conference

Khan's speech was watched by his ex-wife Jemima, who it was revealed this morning had helped paid for digital cameras to be given to tribal leaders to photograph drone attacks. The Times reported that 50 cameras had been given to community leaders who will document each strike with the information pooled in a central data bank. The scheme has been organised by a group of Pakistani lawyers who hope to document the suffering of civilians in the region. Research from Pakistan has found that almost 800 civilians have been killed by drone attacks since they began in 2004. The study found that for every militant killed, 15 civilians lost their lives.

Imran and Jemima Khan's battle against drones came hours after the U.S. launched its latest attack on the Waziristan region, killing five Taliban commanders. They included Maulvi Nazir, who is regarded as one of the group's most influential members in the country. The senior commander identified four of the dead as Hazrat Omar, Nazir's younger brother, Khan Mohammad, Miraj Wazir and Ashfaq Wazir. The attack on Waziristan brings estimates for the number of militants killed in Pakistan this year to 325.
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Brought to book: Jemima Khan on appearing in her ex-husband's memoir

What's it like to appear in someone else's book without your knowledge or approval? After Jemima Khan got her hands on Imran Khan's book, she had the opportunity to discuss Pakistan and their time together with her ex-husband

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"Too late. Don't worry Jem you come across as you always wanted to Joan of Arc," was the response I got from my ex-husband, Imran Khan, when I asked if it would be possible to read his memoirs before they were published. Imran and I have remained on very good terms. He even uses my mother's house as a London base when he's in the UK. Still, hearing that there was a chapter in Pakistan: A Personal History entitled "My Marriage", was, I'll admit, unsettling. I wrestled an advance copy, a brick of a book, from my sons (to whom it had been dedicated, as well as to "the youth of Pakistan"). Imran is featured on the front, looking moodily into the middle distance with backcombed, boyband hair. (And before any Pakistanis get their shalwars in a twist about my irreverence, Imran has an excellent sense of humour and enjoys a tease, by me or a comb). It is hard to overestimate the importance of hair in Pakistan a symbol of tantalising female sexuality, referred to in the Koran as an adornment that must be covered, and of male virility and power. An American-Pakistani hair transplant specialist recently moved his practice to Islamabad and after the summer recess, the entire National Assembly re-appeared with follicular explosions on their heads. I'm agog for the new Lollywood (Lahore's Bollywood) blockbuster, Kaptaan, about Imran's life and his marriage to be released later this year in which I am played by a Pakistani actress with a suitably big, blonde bouffant. Fortunately, the My Marriage chapter only contains a couple of pages on that subject, starting with our Mills & Boon-style first encounter "I was particularly impressed by her strong value system" and ending sadly. Typically Imran doesn't dwell on this failure. The rest of the chapter, like the rest of the book and Imran's life, is consumed by Pakistan and politics. At times, it reads like a manifesto, which in a way it is. Imran will be fighting elections next year. After 15 years in opposition and with a more robust and independent media and judiciary, for the first time I predict success. More importantly though, so do the most recent polls, with both YouGov and Pew declaring him Pakistan's most popular candidate to lead Pakistan after the next elections. I agreed to interview him for the Independent's Woodstock Literary Festival. Since I live up the road and he's been busy on his book tour, it seemed like a good chance to catch up with him, talk to him about the book in which I appear, and confront him about his comment last week to The Sunday Times' Camilla Long that "honeymoons are overrated". His party announced the event on Twitter: "Jemima Khan In conversion (sic) with Imran Khan." Been there, done that. We conversed at Woodstock. Imran talked convincingly about Islam and its compatibility with democracy and also of the corruption of the ruling elite, the breakdown of the rule of law, of women's rights, the Taliban and even of cricket. The audience, judging by comments overheard afterwards, was duly converted.

Of India, he smiled: "Since we can't change our neighbours, we will have to live with them in a civilised way." On accusations of being too soft on the Taliban, he gesticulated crossly: "Anyone who opposes the war on terror is called a Taliban sympathiser. The reason I wrote this book was to explain what the Taliban is in Pakistan, it is a war of resistance, not religious ideology." It is feudalism and hereditary politics, with parties like the PPP being handed down from father to son like heirlooms, which are the scourge of Pakistani politics, he boomed, in that way that used to startle small children. I made him promise that our oldest son would never be bequeathed PTI, his political party. Corruption was Pakistan's other main challenge, he said. He would not work with other mainstream parties because the leaders of those parties are, without exception, corrupt. He has been offered and turned down prominent roles with all the major parties for that reason. His party is, after all, called, "Pakistan's Movement for Justice". Imran has always been unfailingly, unfathomably confident. The greatest lesson he has learned from cricket? "Never to give up, to fight to the end." For the benefit of my gambling brothers, he said, a bet on his party's victory was worth a punt. At the World Cup in 1992, he had told his friends to take advantage of the 50-1 odds. He knew Pakistan would win. They ignored him, he said, to their everlasting regret. He has no doubt that he will also win the next election. I wasn't always so confident about his chances of success, as he describes in his book. As he became more preoccupied by politics and mostly absent, but not discernibly more successful, I worried that the sacrifices not seeing his boys grow up would not be worth it. He writes in his memoir: "[She] used to ask me how long I would keep pursuing politics without succeeding, at what point would I decide it was futile. But I couldn't answer, simply because a dream has no time-frame." I asked him if he worried for his safety, as we all do, especially his sons. A fortune-teller once told him that he would be assassinated if he went into politics. He has no fear of death, he said. I knew he would. Does he fear then not being able to be effective in government? Many former leaders of Pakistan have had noble intentions at the start but have been forced to compromise. "Successful people compromise for their goals, they do not compromise on their goals." If it's not personal enrichment or power for power's sake that you're aiming for, then there's no need for compromise, was his point. I did not ask about Pakistan's blasphemy laws. It's not safe to give an opinion these days and I worried perhaps unnecessarily about an unjudicious answer. He's learnt from past mistakes and has become notably savvier politically in recent years.

I asked him whether, in that case, he would repeal the Hudood Ordinance, the controversial law which often results in female rape victims being sent to prison for adultery or fornication. "My party's view is that it should be repealed completely and debated in Parliament. That has never happened the law was passed by Zia al Haq and that is why there are anomalies in it." Finally I asked him if he would like to see the implementation of sharia law in Pakistan, especially given that he had told our son, when he was two, that his Action Man only had one arm because he'd been stealing so it had been cut off. The audience laughed. He shot me a look. As we'd stepped up on the podium an hour earlier, he had whispered a warning: "Don't crack jokes, don't mimic me, keep it serious, OK Jem?" "Too late," I replied, "but don't worry, you'll come across as you always wanted a cross between Gandhi and Guy Fawkes."
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