Shoddy statistics don't come from just one side

To quote Rodney Stark, a sociologist at Baylor University, in an interview in Christianity Today:

Much of what has been written about terrorism and the Middle East simply isn't true. There was the recent, widely publicized claim of 100,000 Christians a year dying for their faith. That's pretty stunning. When I found out how that 100,000 number was calculated, I realized it was absurd. More likely, the number was less than 7,000 a year.

Of course, here's another quote from that same interview - this time regarding evangelicals:

They have been very misrepresented by the press, which basically doesn't like religious people, particularly if they go to church and aren't lukewarm about it.