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Asking the dead for help instead of Allah and praying towards shrine seems pretty shirk-ish to me.
You should reconsider how easily you accuse people of shirk. Unfortunately it's become a trait within brothers who call themselves salafi.
First and foremost, nobody prays to the grave. People offer prays at the grave, but all prayers are offered to Allah. People who participate in this often ask Allah to provide them with something for the sake of the beloved awliya they have visited, or intend to visit etc.
Secondly there is some Islamic evidence to support the practice of asking people to interceed on your behalf - it is not made up entirely. http://seekershub.org/ans-blog/2011/07/02/is-it-permissible-to-make-tawassul-through-awliya-saints/
Whether you choose to accept this as good enough or not, is up to you. I personally come from a barelvi background and don't really know what to make of it all. I've always taken the stance of better to be safe than sorry. Unfortunately a lot of the detailed literature is in Urdu, a language I read at a primary school level... LOL I would even agree that there are uneducated people who do commit acts of shirk at darbars etc, but i think most of it is from jahiliya. The sufi awliya and imams do not condone or teach any of the jahiliya we see practiced sometimes at shrines.
I don't ask you to consider this acceptable, but I do ask you to take a minute to stop and think before you label people and their practises. It's not just you, or the salafi's - i've seen it just as bad on the other side. I read some content once where a barweli imam was trying to convince the reader that the deobandi's think God has a hand just like men do, hence are commiting shirk or kufr or whatever just like men do, whereas if you read the deobandi materials they don't claim it to be just like a mans hand - that is an exageration of their beliefs.
Too many divisions have been created in Islam based on exagerations.