Any Unitarians here?

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but are there any other Unitarians here? Also, do you regard Unitarians as Christians?

I suppose it depends on what someone has to believe in order to be classed as a Christian. If someone has to believe in concepts like "salvation" and believing that one can be "saved" by having faith in Jesus Christ who was a divine man that "died for our sins", then Unitarians are for the most part not Christians. We don't generally believe in salvation and few Unitarians hold any positive beliefs about what happens when people die.

I suppose Unitarianism is the opposite of Messianic Judaism, since primarily Jewish theology/philosophy is followed in a Christian setting.

From what I have heard about the Unitarian Church (including from a professor who is a member), it seems like the Unitarians are accepting of people of all belief.

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That's what we say, but it's not quite true, nor is it the main part of our beliefs. Since you're from the US, I'll assume that your ideas about Unitarianism will be based on what you know of the Unitarian-Universalist movement, which is on the whole rather agnostic. It's much more God-orientated in England. Basically, we believe that there is at the most one God who doesn't care whether we're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or whatever, thus we believe that there are many paths that are valid, and we don't hold positive beliefs that we alone are completely right. Despite this, we are not hugely accepting of fundamentalists of any religion, nor are we accepting of any beliefs that promote intolerance or hatred.