Just as Hamas headbands and flags are becoming the hottest must-have accessories on campus this spring, one man with an intimate view of the rot at the core of the terrorist organization is taking his own message of peace to the brainwashed masses.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the estranged eldest son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, was in Vancouver on Thursday to speak at a community event organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver. (Disclosure: I gave introductory remarks at the same event and later took part in a panel discussion with Yousef and moderator Niels Veldhuis, president of the Fraser Institute.)