The article is based on a response made by the author, Muntasir al-Zayyāt, to an article authored by the liberal intellectual Tarek Heggy entitled, ‘Law Kuntu Qibtīya’ [If I Were a Copt]. Heggy believes that the state unjustly spends tax money, partially paid by Copts, and allocates it for building mosques alone but not churches. However, al-Zayyāt responds that the state had seized money from the Islamic endowments in the wake of the revolution in 1952, so that it just spends what it originally stole.