That's the first thing that struck me too, that whatever else the news media might have to focus on, the man's ethnicity is a gift to the Faux News and Daily Fail pundits. In all fairness, the news outlets I've seen so far have concentrated on the bizarre aspects of the story, but you just know which way the gutter tabloids are likely to run with this once the novelty has worn off.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'