Mohamed Rabbae
Mohamed Rabbae (born March 8, 1941 in Berrechid , Morocco ) is a Dutch political activist and former politician of Moroccan descent.
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In 1966 the philosophy student Rabbae fled Morocco to the Netherlands; At the time, activists against the regime of King Hassan II were being persecuted in the North African country , and Rabbae, who was a member of a socialist student movement, was afraid of being arrested.
In the Netherlands, he completed a degree in economics in Amsterdam . He then worked as a worker in a canning factory and a salesman in a department store. At the time, he was also involved in various campaigns for the rights of foreigners, including the incident involving the 182 so-called “church Moroccans ” ( kerkmarokkanen ), who were threatened with deportation after a failed asylum application by the then Justice Secretary Elberta Haars . In the early 1980s he became director of the West Brabant Foreigners Foundation , and from 1983 to 1994 he was director of the Dutch Center for Foreigners ( Nederlands Centrum Buitenlanders , NCB).
In 1994 he became a member of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament for the GroenLinks party . He was elected to the parliamentary elections in 1994 in an internal referendum together with Ina Brouwer for dual party leadership. An interview with him was published in the NRC Handelsblad during the election campaign , in which he said he understands people who want Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses to be banned. The democratic attempt to ban such a book is according to him "the better way than that of Khomeini and other dark powers".
In 2002, Rabbae lost his seat in parliament. He was then a council member in Leiden for a while, but resigned on the first day he was able to take up his post after being absent due to illness for a long time, as he had to take political responsibility for mistakes made during his absence were.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beroepsballing Mohammed Rabbae: "Ik ben een middelaar, maar niet als het om principes gaat" - Mohammed Rabbae: "I am a mediator, but not when it comes to principles" ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NRC Handelsblad , January 22, 1994
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| SURNAME | Rabbae, Mohamed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch politician and political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berrechid , Morocco |