How do one flush a book down the toilet?

There is a lot of fuss in USA about the Newsweek story about ‘Flushing the Koran in the toilet’. Almost all the news commentators are criticizing Newsweek for ‘shoddy’ reporting. There is very little discussion on if this method of torture actually occurred. “What type of plumbing they might have had to flush a book down?” some asks implying that the story is really bogus. What they do not know, or bother to understand, is that the toilets in these prisons are of the primitive Asian type with a hole on a slab with a bucket or just open ground underneath. Imagine throwing a Koran in it. Now the prisoner cannot use the toilet unless he wants to do his ‘job’ on top of the Koran! Imagine how much of a torture this will be to a Muslim? I feel that these commentators should be the ones charged with shoddy reporting. Not Newsweek.