Mohamed Rabbae
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Mohamed Rabbae | |
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Member of the House of Representatives | |
In office 17 May 1994 – 23 May 2002 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Province of Utrecht, Netherlands | 8 March 1941
Political party | GreenLeft (1993–2010) |
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Occupation | Politician, activist |
Mohamed Rabbae (8 March 1941 – 17 May 2022) was a Moroccan-born Dutch politician and activist.
Life
Born in Berrechid, in the French protectorate in Morocco, then controlled by Vichy France, Rabbae fled in 1966 as a student from 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 in the First Van Agt cabinet. In 1983, he was director of the Dutch Center Foreigners (NCB). At the
In 2002, Rabbae left parliament, and for some time he was an alderman in Leiden. On his first working day after a period of several months of absenteeism due to heart surgery, he resigned as an alderman. This was because of errors that had been made in his absence, but for which he took responsibility.
Rabbae was on the executive board of several organizations, especially in the field of policies on ethnic minorities. In March 2008, he was co-organizer of a large public meeting on Dam Square in Amsterdam in the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
On 7 April 2008, Rabbae stated in an interview that there should be an Islamic political party, "a kind of Islamic Christian Democratic Appeal". He said he would be available as an adviser for such a party.[2] Three months later, in another interview to the same newspaper, he confirmed this declaration but precised that he himself did not intend to leave his then-present party Groenlinks, "as long as Groenlinks stays in the vicinity of my ideas".[3]
During a political meeting in November 2010, Rabbae labelled as a
Rabbae died on 17 May 2022 at the age of 81.[5]
Publication
Naast de Amicales nu de UMMON; De mantelorganisaties van de Marokkaanse autoriteiten in Nederland, Nederlands Centrum Buitenlanders, 1993 (Now besides the Amicales, the
References
- ^ Beroepsballing Mohammed Rabbae:"Ik ben een middelaar, maar niet als het om principes gaat", NRC Handelsblad, 22 januari 1994
- ^ Cyntha van Gorp, "'Tijd rijp voor islamitische partij'", Trouw, 8 avril 2008
- ^ Rob Pietersen, "Rustig werken aan de moslimpartij", Trouw, 24 July 2008
- ^ "Rabbae breekt met GroenLinks", Trouw, 5 November 2010
- ^ [1]", NOS, 17 May 2022