You are right, Jesus was not a pacifist. He had a temper - a pacifist would not have turned over the tables of the money lenders and merchants. One would not have to be a pacifist to rightly condemn the slaughter of thousands of prisoners, either. Ghandi was a pacifist.
the whole flipping the tables deal was an example of where
we get the term "righteous indignation". If someone is in
your church(or in this case, temple) and defiles it...there
you go. I don't see Marines/Soldiers shooting at non-combatants while hiding in a church. That said, any religion
can be "hijacked" to do evil, some are just way more
susceptible to it than others.In this case Islam.If you can't read and have everything spoon fed to you in a madrass
from age 0...you get Ronald McWahabbi.