With the name of the undisputed Creator, what follows is set forth

Professional undertakings/pursuits:

Having understood the environmental, and later public safety/ security fields to be noble, I pursue/d them professionally and academically. I considered real estate related fields to be safe and clean in their core; have held positions as or in, remodeling, mortgaging, a real estate agent, and property manager. A proponent of technology, have experience and erudition in computer and enviro-tech fields. I have always had interest in politics, government, and international relations.

ETIS International [has websites]

Headline Crest News; abbreviated HCN [has websites]

Mortgage Professional; management, business operations, licensed mortgage loan originator (NMLS 374954)

Internships in EA and The Borgen Project 

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkaccountluqman

https://sites.google.com/view/luqman-a-thornton-mortgage/home

https://sites.google.com/view/luqman-abdullah-thornton-works/main

Genealogical roots, introductory sketch:

My agnatic Thornton line starting with the grandfather, are US Army veterans, per records, at least as far back as serving in WWI and the Civil War. At least one Revolutionary War veteran has been validated as an ancestor (in my paternal, Perciful line). Both my grandfathers (paternal and maternal sides) are US military war veterans.

Civil War veteran Thornton, [great great grandfather] emerging from his family roots in Leesburg, Virginia according to some records, settled down in Raleigh, North Carolina, roughly around the time the war ended.  Whereat, relation held with the Winslow/Overton family complex, whom historically, were from the region nearby.

A number of sons and daughters sprung from the marriage, many of whom married, and consistent with the obvious in some locales, are their descendants through the present; in other locales, that there were anything beyond a few surviving branches, was contrary to lore, as some of the daughters of surnamed Thornton married and replaced their maiden name with their husband, descendants had the later husband's surname, and so forth.  Among the youngest (of the Civil War veteran Thornton that moved to Raleigh in my line), was LTC Dr. James Thornton [my great grandfather], who raised a family mainly in New York through marital relations for my pedigree line, surnamed Ten Eyck. Mrs G. Ten Eyck Thornton, also a military veteran, perhaps through brief service.

(There were numerous individuals with surname Thornton that fought in the Civil War.)

Note: It was custom in centuries past for men, especially who were financially capable, to marry again after a spouse deceased; some ancestors do have multiple marriages in records, and thusly corresponding descendants. [Marriage and offspring through one spouse may not necessarily deny the existence of a marriage and offspring through another spouse.]

Many branches of my paternal ancestry generally are immigrants to the region known today as Virginia, perhaps some to Maryland, and a few to New Orleans; later generations moved westward, markedly Alabama one of the regions.  The Johnston and Johnson surname recurs often in paternal lines. Of the pool of what may briefly be referred to as my ancestors, within the overall pool comes a subset of individuals that immigrated to the region now known as the continental US. Most of these that immigrated during the time span from 1615 to 1870, immigrated from the region currently known and comprised of England, Ireland, and Scotland, in order of most to least. (For example, records show, immigrations or travels, for Perciful, and Starbuck. Surnames in a few generations back in the pedigree, without necessarily hard immigration papers, for names like Wells, and Carter.)

Of course generally speaking, these immigrant families, and their surnames, had ancestors as well, and maternal lines. The maternal lines had paternal lines with their surnames, and some of whom may have migrated or immigrated to what is now known as western Europe, emerald isles, et al. For example Perciful (Perc.. Parc etc.), may have been in the area of England for centuries, but the name derived from regions not necessarily from where England is popularly known.

Marriages roughly in general for this discussion, occurred in America over a course of over 400 years to the present. Altogether, meaning all ancestors combined on paternal and maternal sides, there are ancestors who were from roots other than those just mentioned in those eras. In precluding speculation, if no facts are available I will refrain from stating a speculation as fact.

Maternal ancestry lines have westward movement in the history, arriving on the Eastern Shores of America, and later generations settling in Alabama and Georgia. My maternal grandmother had father or grandfather that is said to have resided in the Caribbean before coming to America; in his day and age, he was known to have Caribbean roots on one side of the family and the other Irish. That was back in the 1800s. The Caribbean according to some accounts or definitions may be considered a 'Latin American' country, others may say on the grounds of some technicalities it is not; what is known is that it is in the region near those that as of 2024 are. 

A grandparent generally is considered being one of 4 (grandparents), hence roughly 25% of the what constitutes that band or tree generation on the pedigree, a great grandparent would be about 12.5% of the respective band [1 of 8]. I do not uphold raciality in the least bit.

Genealogy site:

https://sites.google.com/view/our-heritage-and-of-thornton

There are other genealogy sites and platforms I participate in. More on the subject at Ancestry, Pedigree...

Brief Statement Regarding Beliefs

I do not believe Islam, a word often translated into modern day English as 'asserting peace', hence way of peace, is synonymous with a way of life that is mainly comprised of unnecessary violence, terrorism, perversions, and generally what modern day Arabic language calls transliterated, ghuraba, which briefly translated,  is strange ways, (strange) behaviors, (s..) psychologies, and (s.) intentions.

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I do not believe in wrongful simple carve-ups in society, especially to profiteer from war and oppression, is what should be the basis for anything. For example, I consider to be an inaccurate depiction, that there are only and always has been '3 main religions on earth', [ref. 'Islam, Christianity, Judaism' or 'Muslims, Christians, Jews'], an idea propagated perhaps by some colleges and universities in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA starting about a hundred years ago;  whereas, it starts out with what 3 was said, and their semantic details, a reference to aspects such as 'ity', 'ism', or an awkward 's' at the end to denote plurality, which right there some folks especially learned and kept knowledge handed down to them for hundreds or thousands of years, find tenuously to severely derogatory.  Next, use of the term 'religion' is used in the statement, to refer to them and be the basis of the distinctions of the 3; and that the centricity of those (in those curriculum conveyor eyes) was limited to mainly large US cities and well known European cites, for instance, London and Paris, along with maybe 2 or 3 famous spots in the Middle East, such as Jerusalem, Damascus, Mecca, and Cairo, whereat, of course there are historians that state that there were practices with names of them used today, other than those 3 terms in the regions we now refer to as for example, China, Korea, India, Russia, South America. To illustrate, just how many 'followers' did Confucius, Lao Tzu, or known by some today as Guatama have? Unfortunately, as a recent and often occurrence, ways of life in Africa despite the large size and population numbers, were often largely left out of 'the English' speaking 'thinkers' that held job positions that involved giving academic instruction, spiels. How many of them knew or spoke of beyond a few sentences pertinent to the South Pacific, like Australia, and Canadian natives?

'People of the Book', is not really what this conversation is about; as it is distinguished from sloppily using 3 words, lumping groups based on criteria that have little to nothing to do with the 3 words, and other criteria that can barely stand as valid, if at all.

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I do not believe it is something acceptable for one to make outward statements about themself that one is one thing, and one is not doing what is stated.

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When detracting from correctly living your life, I do not believe in allegiance and fealty to ideological banners that emerge in different eras that may not necessarily be correct. For example, there are ideologies often called different names that suit their era, such as communism, socialism, and Marxism, where adherence to those systems may be digressing into misguidance and even flat out wrongdoing, when they conflict with the correct way of living and the law. Occurrences of heading down the wrong road can happen in a very pronounced manner especially when the ideologies are not needed, outdated, and their ringleaders for any given place and time call for wicked activities. 

A quick illustration, a tyrant out of the blue dictates everyone in a designated area act as though they are in a commune that has a few farms way out in the country 200 years ago, (a reference to communism), no one gets to pray at any point, and anyone that does not go along with the plan is severely punished, when, the area is a densely populated city with no farms. It is clear here there is no need, for commune living methods in 2024 that match remote farm areas in 1824. When the law changed, to live in the city as though it were a city, when a few people keep acting like its 200 years ago wearing winter jackets in the summertime, not praying at prayer time, all because they insist on keeping going with their fealty to commune conducive ways, it is not acceptable. By some standards it is technically or medically craziness.

Watered down understandings of remnants and fragments  of those ideologies, and placing going forward with  them especially when they hold conflicts to what is correct, by easy inference, I do not hold as correct.  Attachments to following the wrong ways of different groups calling themselves such (for example, the mentioned communists, Marxists, etc.), can result in going down a path that is not a correct path. That includes the attachments to the allegiances to those groups, especially when it involves engaging in behaviors other than correct behavior. 

Even though certain allegiances and alliances may have been struck up historically for places and time, for instance a world war, where one country with a communist government sends troops to support freeing a group of oppressed, understanding of what the proper place, time, framework, and applications are, is important to have, so that one or a group does not wind up taking off in the wrong direction with an unfitting set of goals. 

I certainly do not believe in putting allegiances [to communism, socialism, and Marxism] nor the subscribing to their incorrect ideas, a priority over the safety and security of my country America, nor anyone else's livelihood.