PENAMPANG: An elderly woman depicted in a video clip reciting the ‘kalima syahadah’ to affirm her conversion to Islam while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at the Duchess of Kent Hospital in Sandakan, recently, did so of her own free will (pix).
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A video of the conversion was circulated on social media, raising concern among netizens on whether elderly patients are subtly being forced to convert while warded since they are vulnerable to being influenced as close family members were inaccessible to them.
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