Secular? Angela Merkel fairly recently (in the context of whether to expand the EU to Turkey) made a statement about European values being Christian values.<p>Not that I agree with her (the &quot;Christian&quot; values of modern Europe are secular values that have replaced the original Christian values because we spent centuries figuring out that they&#x27;re wrong so calling our modern values Christian is incredibly misleading) but I wouldn&#x27;t agree with a blanket statement like &quot;Europe&#x27;s culture is a secular culture&quot; either.<p>If anything, Europe&#x27;s culture is incredibly diverse. Saying immigration&#x2F;refugees threaten our secular culture is just a nice way of saying you&#x27;re afraid of the possibility of Islam affecting our liberties -- which is fine by me, as long as you&#x27;re honest about it.