What religon were they?

Holy crap.. some people are really so *beep* stupid ! They were Christians ! lol the Arabs were Christians before they became Muslims so yea.. you'll find a pretty high percentage of Christians in the Levant region ( Palestine , Lebanon , Syria etc..) than anywhere else in the Arab world ! They are most likely orthodox Christians , so no, they wouldn't support Israel not after what they have done to their people and country. Only American evangelicals have a thing for hating Catholics and Muslims so i can pretty guess why even Christians here on this board are so *beep* surprised at the fact that

1. There is such a thing as being Arab, and Christian
2. Palestinians Christians are not Zionists.. (yea because they would support the people who drop bombs on them, take away their land and imprison them in their own territory.!?) You all need to get a *beep* education !!!

I too was wondering that for most of the film, it actually takes a curiously long time for the issue of religion to come up at all, the focus is always on their Arabness and the ramifications of that, while religion isnt directly referred to until way way into the film, and then after that, it isnt mentioned again.
I had an idea that they -might-- not be Muslims, because of the lack of 'religious clothing" scarves etc, and because of the pointed lack of mention of religion, even though God/Allah is often referred to,mostly in exclamations.


But she tells her new friend the school principal, that theyre not in fact, Muslims..."a minority there,(non-muslim and non-Jewish) in PAlestine, and minority here (arab) in america" , she says.

It was probably also a little curious that religion was never referred to during the heated classroom political discussions...again this seemed to suggest two things, that they might not be muslim, and the other debateable point perhaps being made, is that some unworldly white Americans with poor general knowledge of the world, may have trouble understanding that not all Arabs are muslims.

The family was Christian - Muna was wearing a cross and mentioned that they were Christians.

The movie was made in Canada, and did not reflect persecution of Christians at Islamist hands of Hamas. Emigration of Arab Christians from many Muslim countries is at all high now. Bethlehem is losing, if not lost already, its status of the Arab Christian city.

They were in fact, Jewish. You could tell by their facial features. There are such a thing as Jewish Palestinians. It also explains why the husband was a Doctor and rich and the three daughters were "JAPS."