Is Merkel a Muslim and/or evil?
She’s east german, former stasi.
So, unsettling as it may be, she is neither a leftist nor a secularist. She has explicitly (and under unforced circumstances) stated that the Christian concept of the human person is the essential foundation for human dignity: note that, not the "Enlightenment" concept, not the merely "Western" concept, but the "Christian" concept.
Not leftist, not secularist, nor is she stupid. It is rather amazing to me to see her flailing around now, sounding compromised, confused and clueless when, really, she should know better.
Germany has had a mutually beneficial relationship for decades with Turkish "guest workers" who were respectable, law-abiding, working people. The German workforce depends on the 1st and 2nd generation descendants of these Turkish Gastarbeiter. Merkel has perhaps had trouble realizing that this Syrian/Iraqi Hijrah-Jihad is a whole 'nother thing.
The big, BIG underlying problem, is that German's birth rate and fertility rate have been cratered for 40+ years. They made the world's most obvious and stupid existential blunder: failure to procreate. They have very few young Germans. They are perhaps the first nation --- but will not be the last --- to commit suicide by contraception.
They have foolishly thought they could build a German future without Germans.