This will come as harsh medicine but I think your blame and facts are ALL discombobulated.
Strikes as follows:
1.) It wasn't Emirates that damaged your luggage. Unlike lazy baggage handlers in the USA that like to make political statements with people's products, on the average Emirates people just want to work and get paid. Odds are it wasn't in Dubai and odds are it wasn't an Emirates employee.
2.) Those people in Dubai that want to work handling luggage are really grateful to have a job and they usually aren't Muslim nor are they Arabs. Most of the service industry is imported from India and other nations to take those jobs. They are delighted to have those jobs and get their paychecks. Blaming "muslims" as some other poster did is also an unlikely party in this debacle.
3.) There is no Emirati baggage union that allows workers to beat the crap out of baggage and get away with it. No, with Emirates whether you make $30 an hour handling bags in Dubai or you're a flight attendant bringing in $100,000 your career is on eggshells because they can you after 3-5 years for fresh blood. Hence, no ugly old fat flight attendants if you hadn't noticed? It is a total right to work situation and one screw up like actively abusing luggage and they'll fire their ass as there is a very long line of resumes for people all over the world dying to come work in Dubai for 2x-5x the wages.
4.) Your case sucks. It wasn't designed to repel baggage handler monkeys and I hear this story over and over again. I cover it in this thread
http://www.africahunting.com/threads/a-good-gun-case-for-traveling-wanted.29303/page-2#post-274225 Same thing happened to a friend flying to south america for dove hunting with same gun case. It isn't going to resist being run over by a baggage truck.
5.) Not only did you have the wrong case, you broke a cardinal rule. You ALWAYS keep your optics in quick detach mounts and on your person, never attached to your guns when traveling. It adds weight. It amplifies damage.
6.) Your baggage claim is subject to the Montreal Convention. The rules of that convention are adhered to by literally all civilized nations. Your time is worth more than bothering to file claims under that convention. Lets see, 35 pounds of rifles and they are paying what, $0.31 per pound now? Not even worth the trouble. Why would you file a claim and miss your flight when the airlines are going to pay you literally pennies per pound for damaged luggage? You get a $100,000 firearm policy back home to cover those things for cheap, you don't rely on the Montreal Convention.
7.) The miss-your-flight business is annoying, I grant you that. That is Dubai's version of TSA/FAA with stupid rules about closing the cabin door. You're familiar with stupid rules I trust, since we live in a country with more stupid aviation rules than any other? You can't berate the Emirates for enforcing a rule required by law that is beyond the jurisdiction of a corporation though, right?
I don't mean to berate you but your anger is totally misplaced. American baggage handlers surely taught you a lesson for your gun loving, safari hunting ways in my opinion. Even if it happened in Dubai it wasn't done by an Emirates employee and it wasn't done by one of those "muslims" at any rate because citizens of the UAE don't handle baggage or do manual labor. You chose a marginal travel case in my opinion but ignoring that, your decision to fly with scopes attached was a critical flaw in your overall battle plan.
People/organizations that could be blamed for this debacle:
1.) Yourself
2.) US baggage handlers union
3.) World legislatures for signing the Montreal Convention
4.) Pelican cases
5.) UAE laws and/or their adherence to similar EU rules
Emirates would be way down the list, somewhere near accountable party 7-9 in the blame list.