Hindu fundamentalist groups and their apologists triumphantly seized on the news of the arrests and promptly arrogated to Islamic organizations responsibility for all the recent attacks on Christians.
But more important, the defenders of Wahhabism arrogated to themselves the right to decide what the city's police should do in response to the challenge of radical Islam.
In January of this year, a judge in Virginia ruled against the EPA, which had arrogated to itself the power to regulate unpolluted storm water that runs into a creek.