No, it was a logical conclusion considering the fact that 99% of all recent terror strikes have been carried out by jihadists.

(CNSNews.com) — A United Nations human rights expert Tuesday waded into the debate over the media’s early response to last week’s Norwegian terrorist attack, saying that the assumption Islamists were responsible exposed anti-Muslim prejudice.

“The way in which some public commentators immediately associated the horrifying mass murder in Norway last Friday with Islamist terrorism is revealing and indeed an embarrassing example of the powerful impact of prejudices and their capacity to enshrine stereotypes,” said Heiner Bielefeldt.

“Proper respect for the victims and their families should have precluded the drawing of conclusions based on pure conjecture,” Bielefeldt added in a brief statement released by the U.N.

Bielefeldt, a German philosopher and theologian, is an expert investigator (“special rapporteur” in U.N. jargon) on freedom of religion, appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council to his unpaid post last August.

From mainstream news organizations to wire services to social media, much of the breaking news and early commentary on last Friday’s bomb blast in Oslo and subsequent mass shooting at a youth summer camp pointed to a strong suspicion that Islamists were behind the attacks.