This purge is really something, even cabin crew for Turkish Airline have lost their jobs as part of this. The real coup seem to be going on right now. Its starting to look like "Night of the Long Knives."
The general pattern in the Arab Spring has been to assassinate people like Q'daffi - who remind me more of the heads of crime families than political leaders. But here I sit in the US, where we can afford to have ... separation of concern for those roles. And to an extent, the meritocratic myth even in the US is just that - a myth. It's not like we don't have a presidential pretender running on the idea that it doesn't really work.
I can't imagine a modern politician actively embracing Sharia for any reason other than simply wanting to stay in power.