The Antemoro descend from Arabs who may or may not have stopped off in Somalia. Name Abu Bakr's clan if you think he was a Samaale. If he was, everybody would be claiming him.
Haplogroup T is a can of worms that has not yet been fully worked out. As Anonimo pointed out, they are not Cushitic, are not E1b1b.
Depends on how far back you want to go I guess because North East Africa has been a melting point for thousands of years. Nonetheless, our presence in Africa is thought to be the result of an in-migration. My probable subclade (Y16897) and those of many Dirs (including T haplogroup Isaaqs) is estimated to have a TMRCA of 7200ybp. It is unlikely that Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews and Arabs that share this subclade are the result of an out-migration from Africa.
Anonimo is holding out for a founder effect at an early date, but, as your quote notes, it looks like the T's are the result of recent migrations. T originates in the upper Mediterranean basin to the Zagros mountains in Iran. One theory is that the Dir originate from a population that migrated into the Red Sea hills during the Neolithic, which also fits into the Ifat format. A real answer is going to take some additional DNA work.
Actually, it is highly likely that Somali haplogroup T Dirs might be the result of a recent founder effect that occurred within the last two millenniums, but not after the start of the High Middle Ages.
We ain't descended from a Middle Eastern or South Asian man that settled in the Horn 700 or so years ago and sowed his oats with willing Cushitic beauties, that much I am sure of.
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