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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/danish-cartoonist-feared-for-life.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, told a court he feared he would be 'slaughtered'" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-danish-cartoonist-feared-for-life.jpg" alt="Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, told a court he feared he would be 'slaughtered'"/></a></p>
<p>A Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad has told a court how he feared he would be &#8220;slaughtered&#8221; by an axe-wielding Somali man who broke into his home.</p>
<p>Kurt Westergaard said the 29-year-old intruder who stormed into the house on New Year&#8217;s Day, 2010, wanted to kill him and was lying about the purpose of the attack.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was like a religious, insane young man. I believed he entered the house as a holy warrior who wanted to kill an infidel,&#8221; Mr Westergaard told the court in Aarhus.</p>
<p>Mr Westergaard locked himself inside a panic room and escaped the attack unharmed.</p>
<p>The defendant, who cannot be named under a court order, told the court as the trial opened on Wednesday that he just wanted to scare the cartoonist and not hurt him.</p>
<p>Mr Westergaard said that was untrue, calling the defendant a &#8220;madman&#8221; as well as a &#8220;cowardly liar&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Westergaard&#8217;s drawing was one of 12 cartoons of Muhammad published by a Danish newspaper in September 2005, triggering violent protests across the Muslim world four months later.</p>
<p>The defendant, who was shot in the knee by police as he left Mr Westergaard&#8217;s house, is charged with terrorism and with &#8220;assault with intent to kill&#8221; for hurling the axe at a police officer.</p>
<p>He has pleaded not guilty, though he acknowledges acting violently toward the police.</p>
<p>If convicted of terrorism, the defendant could face life in prison.</p>
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