al-Qaeda[35] (Arabic: القاعدة, al-qāʿidah, "the base") is an Islamist jihadist multinational organization that was founded around August 1988 and late 1989.[36]p75[37] It works as a network, as a stateless army,[38] and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad. Most of the world thinks it is a terrorist organization.[39][40]