Here's what went down:
The government in Qatar at one point, realized it was important to keep some of their smart kids from leaving by having a place for them to get educated in engineering and hopefully stay in country and use the education to help build the economy. This was in 2003. Then everything in the middle east goes to complete sh!t.
Fast forward 16 years and there are different people in positions of power in Qatar and very bad men that were run out of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria-- sought haven in Qatar. There have been some really fvcked up situations that have gone down in Qatar that the media doesn't cover---- and plenty of things they don't even know about. Regardless, Qatar has been the catch all for a number of bad people and the US has been running ops into Qatar quite frequently (comparatively speaking) and trying to flush out the bad elements.
Well, if you're a terrorist, you need a constant supply of fresh bodies to continue waging your war--- so you've got to recruit. Who better to recruit than engineering students. Engineers know how to design stuff and take things apart, right? Engineering students make hellacious bomb builders too.
So these bad guys have been recruiting out of this campus. Some congressman that sits on the house Intel committee sees a memo saying that a couple of engineering students from this campus got swept up in a raid where they were found hanging out with some really hard core dudes, and this congressmen then starts digging into the campus and finds out that "some" of the money run through the school came from bad guys. Honestly more dirty money is run weekly through the Catholic Church but that's another story.
So because of this influx of bad people pouring into Qatar, the kids/students (some of them) are swept up in the movement and end up suiting up for the bad guys. Those few idiots landed on our radar and when we looked at their back story, it turns out they studied at this campus. So then the school comes under scrutiny and after looking long and hard enough, this congressman has found "some" dirty money that flowed into the campus. Couple that with Qatar powerbrokers funding terrorists and recruiting out of the campus and it ends up being not a good look.
I don't usually defend aggy but I can assure you that no aggy in their right mind would support a campus that supports terrorism. The whole "antisemitic" argument is just to gin up support because it's a buzzword. It's the middle east--- pretty much everyone is antisemitic.
