London: A fractured flag of Syria is projected onto screens hanging on the eight-meter-high wall behind the stage as Arabic music from an ISIL video fills the theatre.

Three women whose children have all left Molenbeek, Belgium, to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), each take a seat on chairs set up in a triangle.

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