A look from a more reputable news source says the children were taken because of suspected child abuse.
Norway has a ridiculous law where corporal punishment is completely illegal. The mother admitted that on occasion she spanks her children when they've done something naughty.
Under Norwegian law there can be no "physical correction" of children.
Raven does not think there is a religious reason behind the Barnevernet's (Norway's child protection agency) decision to take the children. Norway is just an odd country.
The most common reason Barnevernet take children into care is simply "lack of parenting skills".
That, in short, is the reason Barnevernet gave for taking away the four-month-old baby daughter of a young Norwegian father called Erik and his Chinese wife in the country's second city, Bergen.
Home videos of the little girl when she was three and four months old show her lying in her cot, apparently alert and responsive as she interacts with her parents.
But Barnevernet said lack of eye contact, and other signs, revealed she was suffering serious psychological harm. They said her parents couldn't meet her emotional needs, partly because her mother was depressed, and Erik - to quote one social worker - was "simple".
However, Erik's never been diagnosed with any condition other than a slight lack of short-term memory when he was small. And the baby was never examined clinically by any health professional to establish if anything was wrong with her, and if so whether the parents could be at fault.
Just days before Barnevernet started their urgent assessment of the family, a doctor at their local health clinic found the little girl was developing normally.
But that wasn't mentioned at the court hearing that later upheld the care order. Nor, according to the girl's grandfather, Yngve, was other evidence the family put forward to try to win her back.
In the several years since then, Yngve - the Director of the State Archive in Bergen - has pressed the authorities, without success, to let him and his wife Bente, a professional photographer, take their granddaughter into their care.
Once a pillar of the establishment - he was personally appointed to his job by the King of Norway - Yngve is now a bitter critic of his country's child welfare policy.
Yngve believes Barnevernet first became concerned about his granddaughter because initially she was cared for partly by her Chinese grandmother, to allow her mother to rest. That's common practice in China, but not in Norway, and Yngve thinks it made the authorities suspicious.
Some suggest children with a foreign parent are 4 times more likely than other children in Norway to be forcibly taken from their families.
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