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Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache
It's not complex at all. They're not Muslims and themselves don't identify as Muslims.
You can't finish your sentence with most don't identify as Muslims but consider it a complex question.
Muslims also believe Jesus is a prophet does that mean they are Christians? Just because they believe muhammad was a prophet does not mean they are in any way of the Muslim faith.
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It is more complex than that. Ottoman law categorized people into the three major religions in the area, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian. The Druze were classified as Muslim. So their history up until very recently would have been defined by that categorization. Those same categorizations continue to exist in most middle Eastern countries, where the local leadership has considerable power and can only be from one of those three categories of religions.