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