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“Under the clan system, close relatives have a duty to support one another against outsiders according to the logic of the old Bedouin proverb, “I against my brother; I and my brother against my cousin; I and my brother and my cousin against the world.” Without an enemy to unite them, Somalis often fell to quarreling among themselves.”
― Deborah Scroggins, Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui