Actually, pilgrimage to middle East was ordained back in the Old Testament.

Muslims have maintained this tradition from the father of faith, Ibrahim.

You see them fasting followed by pilgrimage, they are merely traditions going back to the Bible.

Now what you see, and what the church does not tell you Christians is that, they have made you reject all of these traditions.
Then they tell you, you're going there to see graves!!! They have replaced many traditions with none­-biblical festivals, which originated from the local religions of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

In Islam, as one of the 5 pillars, the 5th pillar is performing pilgrimate to Makkar.
This means to visit Maccah at least once in your lifetime, if you can afford.

This is the house of God, God refered to when He mentioned it to Ibrahim.
This is where Ibrahim build the first House of God.

Just for your reference
Psalm 84:5
Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

Psalm 119:54
"Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage."

Exodus 6:4
"And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers."

Genesis 47:9
"And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

You hear those who mock Muslims saying they face makkar. See it for yourself:
Jeremiah 50:5
They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying,
'Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.'

I bet you do. You appreciate facilitating the transition of someone from the Church into a club. May the wrath of God be upon you

And with that you'd set camp in/outside churches and facilitate the smooth transition of His sheep from Church to club?

Matthew 18:6-7
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!

I am sorry if I have been judgmental. Twas not my intention, mine was to show you the folly of your ways. For Ephesians 4:25 says, "Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body."

"Search me O God, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts; And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Psalm 139:23-24)

it is......the grass is always greener on the other side...lakini mtoto akililia wembe mpe..hope she's not going for the adverts which show guys looking fresh as morning after serial drinking (and not parked kwa mtaro ama lamp post)

PS:been there