Worshipping the air is something that anyone can do. It’s a phyiscal act of getting together, pointing in a direction or not, and supplicating.
This is a huge defense of the rituals of islam. ‘Worship’=islam.
That’s how an athiest would view it, which all these guys are. I’m not religous myself, and I can clearly see the difference.
Worship has been done in outer space too :-)