The article hence was not one where the reporter was concerned with getting opinions and beliefs from the people who were doing the acts or she would have spoken to them, asking why they are doing such and such and used a name or two in her article.
We cannot say “Become a Muslim” to anyone who is not under obligation to obey us, otherwise we would be coercing and that is considered forceful activity. So if the only option left is that we give dawah … we use intellect and wisdom and ask people to ponder and reflect. They would be unable to do this when very ill and sick. So if the dawah was given properly it would be ineffective for a desperately sick person and if people were simply being made to say the kalimah then that is considered forceful behaviour.
Consensus to me is the measure of opinion across madhab boundaries not just my own particular set of scholars.