Mohamed Rabbae (1941-2022) *81

Mohamed Rabbae was a Moroccan-born Dutch politician and activist. Born in Berrechid, French Protectorate in Morocco, Vichy France, Rabbae fled in 1966 as a student ffrom Morocco to the Netherlands, when activists against the regime of King Hassan II were taken prisoner. In the Netherlands he finished his studies, carried out various activities and was involved in various actions for foreigners' rights, including the so-called 182 Moroccans church after asylum-seekers were threatened to be expelled by the then State Secretary of Justice Bert Haars [nl] in the First Van Agt cabinet. In 1983, he was director of the Dutch Center Foreigners (NCB). At the 1994 Dutch general election, he became an MP for the political party GreenLeft. For the elections of that year he was one of the two top candidates, along with Ina Brouwer. During the campaign, in an interview with NRC Handelsblad, Rabbae expressed understanding for people who wanted the book The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie banned. He said that "an attempt to have such a book banned with democratic means is better than following Khomeini and other forces of darkness". His party lost one of its six seats in those elections but gained six at the next ones, while Rabbae was still a candidate.

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