Cornell 7 frat bro who said he was sodomized trashed US, is son of Dubai-based Islamic studies prof

Matthew Ingalls — the Cornell University Chi Phi fraternity brother who admitted he initiated the now infamous threesome that an unnamed female student claimed in a lawsuit turned into a gang rape — is a US hater who grew up in privilege and whose father teaches Islamic studies in Dubai, The Post has learned.Ingalls, 21, whose full name is Umar Matthew Ingalls, attended Dubai International Academy, an elite private school that charges about $21,000 a year located in what has been dubbed the “Beverly Hills of Dubai.” The former frat bro grew up between the Middle East and the United States.The school, in Dubai’s Emirates Hills neighborhood, hailed as the city’s “most exclusive and prestigious gated community” where homes start at $3 million, was listed as Ingalls’ alma mater on Cornell University’s rugby roster for 2023-2024, when he played on the team.A resurfaced 2020 article said he was embarrassed by his American citizenship while attending the posh school, having to explain to people in the United Arab Emirates that “no, I’m not a Trump supporter.”“Generally speaking, ‘American’ over here is synonymous with ‘Trump,’ which is synonymous with a whole bunch of other words that I won’t mention,” a high school online magazine quotes Ingalls as saying, describing him as half American.At that time, he went by Umar Ingalls, according to the article and another from 2022 about a lunar rover project he built with four Dubai International Academy classmates.His father, Matthew Burtchaell Ingalls, is a professor of Islamic studies at the American University in Dubai, where he has taught since 2016 and chairs the Department of Middle Eastern Studies.The older Ingalls, 48, a convert to Islam, lamented in a 2021 article that the research on Islam was too focused on terrorism.“Much of the research in the Americas focused on questions of assimilation or terrorism and neglected the more basic issues of belief, practice and community,” ...