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Both significantly shift away from Sunni Orthodoxy. Alawites could be described as a Shia-Christian blend, and Druze as a Shia-Gnostic/Neoplatonic blend. So I think the Crusaders only took the Christian aspects of Alawites into consideration when classifying them as non-Muslims, but not the non-Islamic aspects of Druzes.
But it's worth mentioning that Alawites were very welcoming to the Crusaders and became their greatest collaborators, while the Druzes fought fiercely against them since the beginning.
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