Your passport application can state the reason you are travelling. Hadj to Mecca would be an interesting reason.
Hannity on the story now.
I went to the USSR in 1988 with a college class, before the fall of Communism, and stayed there for 2 months.... does that make me a Commie? No.
when they ask for purpose of travel, one puts business or pleasure{vacation}. Nobodyh gets details