Colonial borders trapped Somali nomads who predated modern nation-states.

Evidence

Mohamed’s ancestors stopped there in the early 1900s, long before modern borders were drawn and new nations were created, when the only boundaries that mattered were the very lines and cracks in the sand that would trap Mohamed. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 102

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how arbitrary colonial borders in the Horn of Africa created stranded, stateless communities — a concrete hook into the global Islamophobia argument.