What Are the Causes of Rise of Fundamentalism?

The September 11 acts of terrorism brought out the dark face of fundamentalist terrorism whose sources and root causes must at some point be considered. The attacks on the twin towers where there used to be commercial and government offices, with commercial air planes in which there were many innocent people from different nationalities, cannot be forgiven and justified. Its committers and the leaders of them must certainly be found and punished.
Can these attacks and their aftermath be placed in the context of current discussions of globalization?…