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 :So, the one group of experts who actually examined the website used the more precise and accurate word; we should use that word too.  ""Jihadist"" is not considered offensive; it is a translation of the word mujahideen; would you prefer we used ""Mujahideen reaction""?  It is more offensive to pretend this is a general reaction of Islamist extremists (who might include Louis Farrakhan or Ali al-Sistani) rather than a reaction specifically of those Islamist extremists who consider themselves holy warriors in the military sense.  It is the latter that are generally called ""jihadists"" in the counterterrorism literature and scholarship.   "