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[quote=Anonymous][quote=anonymous] So many alternatives to forcible sex...
- reunite them with their surviving relatives,
If the people who you are at war with are capturing your women, why would you reunite the women you captured with their relatives unless they agreed to do the same. [/quote]

Often you are at war for that very reason: to obtain material gains, including female booty.

[quote=anonymous]
- create a legal framework that supports women who need to work,
Regardless of their religion, few women worked. [/quote]

That's bullshit. Women, in both 7th century Arabia and the nations Arabs invaded worked in the fields, in the trades, in actual trading.  Muhammad's first wife didn't get rich by eating bonbons. Didn't he work FOR HER originally?

[quote=anonymous]
- monastery,
It is unislamic for women to desire a monastic life. Women are encouraged to get married.[/quote]

It's unislamic to enforce islamic ideals on non-Muslim women.  La ikraha fi'ddeen.  You aren't going to argue that the captors did concubines a favor by meeting their physical needs? I think one of the blogs you linked early on advanced that argument, ridiculous to the hilt. Besides, some of the captured women were ALREADY married, weren't they, but the blogger you linked argued their marriage was invalidated by the mere act of bringing them into an Islamic state. You'd have to be a devoted Muslim not to see it. 
[quote=anonymous]
- poor house,
- a house of worship (theirs or yours) gives them alms, food and housing
At the time, women left to live alone, even with other women, were at risk.
Basically, anything besides forcing sex on them. [/quote]

Yes, there were all kinds of options for female captors. Having sex with them wasn't at all necessary. It was, however, a desirable thing in the eyes of the Muslim warriors - both for dominating the nations they defeated (what better way to dominate a man than to screw his women?) and for creating more Muslim children. And hey, if the woman was lucky enough to both deliver a child AND outlive her owner, she might even get freed. [/quote]

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