Which statements accurately describe al-Qaeda's beliefs?

Choose all answers that are correct.

A.

Al-Qaeda fears and hates the freedom of thought and religion that the United States and other democracies cherish.

B.

Al-Qaeda believes it is never acceptable to take an innocent human life.

C.

The vast majority of Muslims around the world embrace al-Qaeda's beliefs.

D.

Al-Qaeda teaches an extreme, distorted, and inaccurate version of Islam.

Al Qaeda is a paramilitary, jihadist organization that employs terrorist practices and poses as an Islamist resistance movement around the world, while it is commonly referred to as an international terrorist network. Its founder, leader and major collaborator was Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), a billionaire of Saudi origin who studied Religion and Economic Sciences at the University of King Abdul Aziz. Aymán al Zawahirí succeeded him as the sole head of the organization.

Recent investigations -journalists, researchers, analysts and specialists- affirm that Bin Laden was financed by the CIA in the fight against the troops of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the so-called war in Afghanistan (1978-1992) during the Cold War. The support went from instruction in combat to the delivery of weapons.

Its organizational structure based on militant cells and networks of clandestine contacts, very similar to the modus operandi of drug trafficking cartels, has given it a very wide mobility of action and a great difficulty to dismantle it.