Islam is a very light wrap they have used in the past to protect themselves from the extreme Islamofascist majority over the ages.
They claim, and DNA tests have demonstrated, that they are descendants of every group to have come to or ruled over the Holy Land.
Not heard that about the Druze, but then I don’t know much about them at all. I know that they have been severely persecuted over the centuries. Could they be Samaritans? There are 300 Samaritans left in Israel I think at last count