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.

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".

[3] During a political meeting in November 2010, Rabbae labelled as a fascist the far-right PVV leader Geert Wilders.

In the aftermath, the Groenlinks (GL) leader Femke Halsema tweeted first that he did not speak for the party, then that he had gone too far according to her, but that she recognized his freedom of speech.