I know that. Just pointing out your double standards compared to the holocaust.

The comparable word is "crusade". If it's OK to use the word crusade, it's OK to use the word jihad.

(My opinion is that neither should be used, but a majority of Americans disagree with me).

To be pedantic, crusade means "holy war" and jihad means "to struggle", so jihad should be more acceptable than crusade, but in English, jihad essentially only has the holy war meaning.

"Nuclear holocaust" is a somewhat common expression both in and outside of fiction.