Happens every year, world wide, in a variety of Christian festivals as well. So often, in fact, that no one thinks them unusual.
You've not seen anything, until you see young men in one of the latin American countries lick every step into their local cathedral. Yes, that's lick with their personal tongues, every stone step, until their tongues are bleeding.
I happen to be partial to the Christian religion, but let's not compare the emotion charged pilgrimage or ritual aspects of these religions.
You'd better look at the conquest requirement and the
once Allah has granted us control of a land, it is ours forever aspects of Islam to find something to fret over.